Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roybal said that for Hanks's "roast," the actorwill receive an empty bronze Pudding Pot. "It'smore of a symbol than anything else," Roybalexplained...
...said today, indicating three limestone tablets describing how the ancient world's greatest conquerer came to rest at the tomb, in the western Oasis of Siwa. Her team also found carved oak leaves worn in the crowns of Macedonian kings and an engraved eight-pointed star -- Alexander's own symbol. But several Egyptian and U.S. experts tell TIME the tomb could be anything from a later Roman construction to a mere pointer to where Alexander is really buried, to a showcase for tablets that might have been transported from elsewhere. Doubts will remain until the tomb is excavated...
...tanks and artillery, infantrymen probed the deserted streets for bands of Chechen rebels hiding out in basements and rubble-strewn upper stories. After pounding each block with high-explosive shells and rockets, rifle-toting Russian soldiers moved up, closing in on the presidential palace, which had become the symbol of Chechnya's effort to secede from the Russian Federation. On Saturday they had captured the Council of Ministers building, just a few hundred yards from the palace. It was a brutal, terrifying style of warfare, as the Chechens learned to their sorrow...
...dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must be paid...
...seven Winter Olympics races without a medal had put the speed skater in the express lane to sports oblivion. But the hard-luck kid from Wisconsin kept on trying, and in Lillehammer, one liberating 1,000-m performance earned him a gold medal and turned him into a symbol of deserving victory...