Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late March week in Southern California provides ample evidence that Los Angeles remains our nation's brightest symbol of the triumph of the democratic experiment. Like the weather this week, the area's future is sunny, with almost no clouds in a very blue...
...Fuhrman may be the one to sustain the most lasting damage. Though he emerged from the cross-examination remarkably unscathed, months of poisonous publicity have made him a symbol of all that is wrong with the Los Angeles police department and branded him a vicious racist. Yet interviews with many of Fuhrman's colleagues and friends suggest that he is a considerably more complex character than the one so far presented to the public...
...salad to supplement their traditionaldiet of meat, butter, milk and oatmeal, withvitamin C. In the 17th century the conqueringEnglish, not yet aware that everyone should eatfive serving of fruit and veggies a day, scornedwhat they saw as this uncultured Irish cuisine.the Irish promptly decided to adopt the clover asa symbol of ethnic pride...
...goes Gavin Bryars' extraordinary elegy The Sinking of the Titanic, released this month on Point Music. Mankind's greatest and most poignant symbol of technological hubris has inspired the British composer, 52, to one of his finest and most moving works, every bit the equal of 1993's haunting Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet and even surpassing it in the complex and sure-handed way Bryars uses his materials...
There are no mystical figurines or black magic books. Spurr, a 27-year-old single mother raising a 4-year-old son, wore a pink tunic top over a white turtleneck and leggings. A pewter necklace depicting a rose and pentagon, the symbol of witchcraft, hung around her neck...