Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...requesting the evacuation of 32,000 civilians. Then the leaders themselves joined the long line of cars, trucks and buses streaming in the direction of northern Bosnia. Around noon, an enormous Croatian flag, whose red-and-white checkerboards have long served for Serbs as a hated symbol of Croatian rule, was hoisted above Knin's 10th century citadel, once used as a coronation site for medieval kings...
Apart from the fact that they both have weird things on their chins, actors ETHAN HAWKE and Kirk Douglas have little in common. But the similarities doubled when Little, Brown announced that it had bought the first literary work by the thinking teenager's sex symbol (Douglas is the proud author of three novels). Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is described by its editor, Jordan Pavlin, as being "about first love and heartbreak, about being turned inside out by the intensity of your own emotion." Little, Brown paid about $300,000 for the novel, roughly 60 times the advance...
...obvious as soon as Israel and the P.L.O. announced the Oslo agreement that the main test for Arafat would be to transform himself from symbol-agitator-roving propagandist to ruler-conciliator-at-home pragmatist. A year after his return to his homeland, he is still struggling with the challenge. His brand of leadership remains better suited to an activist on the run than an administrator on the job. His strength is political theater, not practical policy...
...mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen it as a parable of human freedom...
When he was elected to Congress last November, George Nethercutt became a national symbol of the Republican revolt -- not only against the Democrats but also against the ancient culture of buying votes and campaign contributions with taxpayer money. A political newcomer, Nethercutt had taken on the towering Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, and turned the Democratic incumbent's traditional advantage -- his ability to deliver everything from federal buildings to highway construction to his district -- into a liability. "Pork comes with a price," Nethercutt reminded voters, one that would be paid by their grandchildren unless all Americans pitched...