Word: symbolic
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...trademark usually having something to do with wood. When he targeted the president of United Airlines, it was not lost on students of his obsessions that the man's name was Percy Wood, and the bomb came disguised in a book called Ice Brothers, published by Arbor House, whose symbol is a leaf. He polished and sometimes varnished his wood pieces, but it was clear, from the skewed corners and amateurish joints, that he was not a trained woodworker. "He's not a craftsman," Don Davis, a top postal inspector in San Francisco, said months ago. "His cuts aren...
...gain increased attention. I do not ask Abdul-Rauf to love his country, merely to show it the respect it deserves for providing him, and only him, the opportunity to pursue his dreams. An article in Newsweek summed it up best: "...if the national anthem is such an obvious symbol of tyranny and oppression, why isn't the national dollar likewise to be denied?" --Scott Muoio...
...Marines. The issue took a serious turn following the March 5 murder of a Marine lieutenant colonel at Camp Pendleton, California, allegedly by a sergeant under his command. The suspect has a tattooed teardrop coming out of the corner of his left eye, which may be a gang symbol. Under current Marine regulations, though, a teardrop is perfectly unobjectionable. That is expected to change. A corps panel is codifying the rules for just what types of tattoos will pass Marine muster...
...beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more so at the end, where it is used to great effect, bookending the progress shown in the film, in which such images began as innocuous and then became an object of prurient curiosity and hatred, finally, as the directors hint, a symbol of possibility and hope...
...signing of the telecommunications bill on Feb. 8 necessitated some serious reflection on the part of Americans. The government tightened speech restrictions on the Internet, prohibiting discussion of sexually indecent material and abortion. The Internet is now only a former symbol of uncensored free exchange...