Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premiere performance of Kevorkian's suicide machine, which he invented for the terminally ill, blew open the debate over the boundaries of mercy killing. As the details of her life and death emerged, Adkins became a symbol of all those patients who confront a horrible disease and vow to maintain some dignity in death. And as Kevorkian carried his crusade for legal mercy killing to networks and newspapers around the country, he became a standard-bearer for all those who fail to see a moral difference between unplugging a respirator and plugging in a poison machine. He was quickly dubbed...
Stylized and static, the five-hour Passion play is hardly a masterpiece, yet many Christians cherish it as a vivid, visible symbol of their faith. Further, it is a cultural artifact representative of its time and thus has historical validity. Finally, it is inappropriate to revise a work of art according to contemporary attitudes. Jews are depicted hardly less stereotypically in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice or Richard Strauss's opera Salome. It is hard to see how any version can ever satisfy all. One possible solution, briefly bruited in 1977, is to revert to Ferdinand Rosner...
...theaters have removed rows of seats to make room for people in wheelchairs. Several service stations offer to pump gas at no extra charge for disabled drivers, and grocery stores provide electric carts for shoppers who cannot navigate the long aisles. Parking spaces marked with the blue-and-white symbol of a wheelchair are vigilantly guarded; anyone who illegally slips into one is subject to a $30 fine. Rather than rely on police to enforce the law, many disabled residents carry ticket forms that can be slapped onto the window of an offending car. Their eagerness to be tough...
...provincial premiers at Meech Lake in the Gatineau hills of Quebec, Mulroney devised a set of amendments that would finally satisfy the demands of the Quebecois and bring them to sign the national constitution "with honor and enthusiasm." But by last week the Meech Lake accord had turned a symbol of renewed division and intolerance between English- and French-speaking Canadians...
...verse piece about the consequences of male violence for women, gays and the homeless. The same piece was also singled out by Evans and Novak, who took exception to the fact that at one point Finley spreads chocolate across her naked body in what she describes as "a symbol of women being treated like dirt...