Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time it didn't matter whether they had seen it. This was not a debate about the spiritual values of Last Temptation; this was a fight about who controls the culture. Last Temptation, like other cultural totems-flag burning, Robert Mapplethorpe, gun control, nea, abortion-had become a symbol of cultural hegemony...
...generation, he never printed his own pictures. Cited as a pivotal figure in elevating photography's status as an art, he seemed less concerned with placing his images in museums than in overseeing the opening-night guest lists. Yet it was oddly appropriate that Mapplethorpe became a posthumous symbol of artistic freedom in 1990, when Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was prosecuted on obscenity charges for showing his photographs. While Mapplethorpe probably could not recite the First Amendment, his work was an extreme form of self-expression meant to shock people into seeing his dark world in a new light...
...extended the invitation [to the Mather House reception for Aaron to] share his views and experiences with us as a symbol of American achievement and to discuss, as he did during his speech, the importance of persons of different racial and cultural backgrounds working together to improve racial understanding among students and faculty," Counter says. "We saw fit to honor him for his outstanding contribution to American sports and intercultural relations...
...award read, "President of the Republic of Ireland, distinguished European Law expert, passionate defender of human rights, guardian of the welfare of the people, and a symbol of reconciliation and hope for all humankind, you exemplify how a lawyer may serve the public as an instrument of change to make men and women free." --Valerie J. MacMillan...
...crippling obstacle. They aren't even consistent. For if Mike, the much maligned cop (Michael Ness), is a repressed homosexual who finally realizes his true nature in the quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...