Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...athletic field this quest for being the best becomes a matter of winning titles, championships, and trophies. In athletics, a full trophy case is the symbol of success. To get trophies, tennis players whack thousands of balls per week in practice sessions at Palmer Dixon, swimmers undergo punishing workouts twice daily from October to March and distance runners sometimes run until they wretch...
...assassination attempt came at a critical moment in Poland's 16 troubled months of reform. Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, long a symbol of opposition to the Communist regime, lay dying. Solidarity leaders had begun to feel the pull of more militant supporters, especially after a March 1981 clash with police in Bydgoszcz. Even rank-and-file Communists had started to call for democratic changes in the party organization. By striking down Solidarity's pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains...
...this dreadful state, accompanied by the best horse, dog and chicken pounds civilized man has yet produced. Young laments, "All my chickens, they all run away" and the background vocals swell in a dirge of sympathy. The hero returns to a dinner of pork and beans--as obvious symbol of the heartbreaking compromises of modern life...
...balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first place. At the last, Naylor completes the haunting cycle, bringing together, spiritually or physically or both, the lives of all the women with the life cycle of the street itself...