Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iranian reformers have long sought to abolish the garment, which they consider a symbol of women's subordinate status. But even after the Shah's father, Reza Shah, outlawed the chador in the 1930s, rural women continued to wear them. After his abdication from the Peacock Throne in 1941, chadors began to reappear in Iranian cities. Today, four-fifths of older Iranian women wear the chador, as do an increasing number of younger women. But today's chador does not always fulfill its intended purpose: some are quite diaphanous. In an ironic display of Iranian women...
Getting tickets for one of the group's eight concerts became an overnight status symbol for the Moscow establishment. As a result, most of the seats went to the privileged-members of the Communist Party, government officials and the cultural elite. Only 10% of the tickets were sold to the general public, and scalpers charged up to 200 rubles ($300) for a five-ruble ($7.50) ticket. One enterprising fan introduced himself at the box office as an aide to U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon and disappeared with four tickets reserved for the American embassy...
...Weber case sent back so lower courts can reconsider evidence of Kaiser's past discrimination. But Weber, now a $20,000-a-year lab technician at the Kaiser plant, says he is optimistic about winning in the high court. If he does, he may become an even more important symbol than Allan Bakke. Unlike Bakke, who used to duck publicity, Weber says he doesn't mind "the notoriety." A loquacious Cajun and father of three who is fond of fishing, he likes to be photographed in his hard hat. In fact, Weber plans to go to Washington to hear...
This nascent "it," a combination of glamour and whatever it is that makes cookies tough, belonged to a teen-age girl from New York City, born Betty Perske and metamorphosed by Hawks and Warner Bros., publicity department into Lauren Bacall. She was the kind of sex symbol a fella could swap wisecracks with and then bring home to Mother. She became an instant addition to the fantasy lives of American males when she huskily told Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, "If you want anything, just whistle...
...Jean Paul Belmondo doesn't consider himself a sex symbol." This intelligence comes from Raquel Welch, presumably an expert on the subject; she once acted with the French star in L 'Animal. Nevertheless, Belmondo's charm leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou Voyou, Belmondo's latest film, he plays a cop disguised as a gangster and gets entangled in fistfights. In more civilized moments off the set, Belmondo brushes up on his tennis. Even a nonsex symbol needs a touch of love...