Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never appreciate in this country the particular eminence that Ed had in Japan. He was the only one who really spoke and read and wrote Japanese. He was a great symbol of friendship and understanding," Fairbank said...
...Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign of national decay? Has the author turned symbol monger? If not, what's the point...
...claiming that the president of P&G "gave Satan all the credit for his riches" and offering information on "alternative products." For more than a decade, P&G has been bedeviled by the satanism charge. Tales that its 108-year-old moon-and-stars logo was demonic forced the symbol off company packaging. Three previous rumors were traced to Amway distributors, who were repudiated by Amway officials...
...shops, bringing the total to 238. Thirty more are planned. "Dumas is one of the brightest retailers in the world," says Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of the Neiman-Marcus stores. Marcus owns 175 Hermes silk ties, hand-screened and hand-hemmed at $95 each. "It is a status symbol," he admits. "But it is also the finest quality tie made anywhere...
While the technique may not be original, however, it is certainly appropriate. The return to the place he began is a pithy symbol of his rise and fall, providing the film with a sense of "ashes to ashes." His words seem simple, but the concluding phrase of "There was a crime, there was a victim, and there is punishment," in fact belies the movie's remarkable complexity...