Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Third, Crowe makes the garage door opener serve as a consistent symbol of attachment. The set decorator (Clay Griffith) and set designer (Cosmas Demetriou) manage to place this middle class prop within easy grabbing distance anytime a character is about to propose a commitment...
...many Americans the Constitution is a symbol of their country, and it is thus surprising that so little of their attention has focused on South Africa's attempt to replace the lingering fragments of apartheid with a new constitution...
AMERICA IS STILL declining. The ghetto is merely a burgeoning symbol of the many problems consuming the entire country. If we can begin with the people who need help immediately, perhaps then we can apply the solution to middle America, which has only begin to feel the itchings of the decline. Otherwise, they may experience something much more painful and widespread, and much sooner than they can imagine...
...Brown (played by the daughter of the long-ago-famous puppeteer- ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, and manipulated by activist fortysomething Hillary Democrats) represents a certain constituency. Dan Quayle, having no television surrogate to manipulate, has passed through the looking glass, playing himself, representing another America. He has become a moral symbol and performer himself: statesman and 'toon...
...doubt it was ever thus. But the problem does seem to be getting worse. The great symbol and measure of our inability to make trade-offs is the national debt, which has quadrupled in 12 years. We refuse to decide whether we want lower taxes or higher government benefits, so we demand both. The result is the annual deficit, cumulatively the national debt. Both candidates mouth pieties about "tough choices" but don't actually ask us to make...