Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THOSE YEARS, we lost the meaning of we, of you", Adrienne Rich writes in one of her recent poems. Chararterizing the past decade, Rich joins the chorus of those for whom the 1980s became a symbol of indifference, a time for selfishness, an era of greed. This perception has now gained wide acceptance and expression-even to the point of redundancy and triviality...
Annelies, often quiet amidst this turmoil, remains the pivot of the work, a living symbol of Indonesia. She's an enigmatic blend of Native and European influences, admired by all and destroyed by all, confused and enfeebled...
...said that because the president will increasingly be looked to as a symbol, candidates will need to be beyond reproach in their personal and public lives...
...then supported it. Why? Chief Justice William Rehnquist pissed him off when he wrote in his dissent that people during the Vietnam War were defending the flag. Kerrey said he personally was not, and that he had therefore decided that the court was right--the flag was just a symbol...
Some leaders in the republics are almost surely thinking about more than just the trade-in value of all that lethal hardware in their midst. They may be asking themselves, What's the ultimate status symbol and guarantee of sovereignty in the late 20th century? One tempting, though dangerous answer: a nuclear arsenal of one's very...