Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of November 9, 1989, things changed. The Wall fell, state socialism gasped its last breath, and the East German people rose up against that dreaded stone symbol of authority. Toppled by the will of the people, Marx and Lenin were consigned to the mass grave of statuary piling up in Eastern Europe since...
...open space can be seen as inviting, Holyoke Center itself cannot. Josep Lluis Sert's massive construction originally met with nothing but praise. As a 1957 Boston Globe review put it, "[A] new visual image will take over the University, [an image] which has become the symbol of intellectual achievement...
...almost forgot the rapist who lives in a mansion with his four wives. Women to him are like baubles, merely another symbol of his wealth...
...your chapter describing fellow students, you write that "Sarah wore baggy clothes in shades of brown and burnt orange. Looking at her, you couldn't see any curves or angles, just fabric. Her blond hair was short, and she wore an earring in the shape of a woman symbol." I worry that you make this description so exaggerated as to render it ineffective. (Although I do love your discovery of what it was Sarah had to hide, and why she felt the need to shroud herself in feminism: "I learned that what Sarah hadn't talked about all those years...
...Exchange, the first ever of its kind on the East Coast, attracted Swatch collectors from around the world. Others in attendance included self-proclaimed symbol "Dr. Swatch"--a.k.a. actor Jim R. Meskimen of Los Angeles...