Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montagne, a semi-retired hood known as "Le Flambeur" (the gambler), is a peculiar blend of American and French character. He speeds around the narrow streets of Montmartre in that most American symbol, the Cadillac convertible, and his outfit suggests the classic American gangster get-up: rumpled raincoat, dark suit, and perpetually tilted hat. And there is that peculiarly American sense of optimism and near-innocence that he earnestly exudes as he flips the ever-present coin in his pocket and wryly comments." I feel my luck coming back...
...accrued for these significant costs would most likely be no more than seven days of mobilization time in the event of a war--a saving which many experts agree is meaningless. President Reagan's motivation, then, for persisting with such a program is clearly to preserve it as a symbol for a hard-lined, bellicose approach to international relations...
Pearson says his Playboy billing hasn't led to sex symbol status on campus. "Nobody's really said much I don't know anybody who reads the magazine," he adds...
...deduced to be the sober, questing, wistful quality in Allen that sends him harking after illusions. Likewise, the Take the Money and Run gag in which inept crook Virgil Stark well whittles a soap gun in jail, only to have it dissolve in the rain, becomes the officiated symbol of Allen's early humor, heavily based on such lively incongruities. To suggest a more subtle gagging which marked Allen's work from the earliest, there is The Moose (1965), a weird parable of hunting and anti-Semitism which Jacobs humorlessly and painstakingly traces...
...most of which is trivial and irrelevant to any substantive concern. This is the elite's equivalent of junk mail, but many educators can't see through it because they are not sufficiently educated to deal with such random complexity." To many experts, the computer seems a symbol of both the problem and its solution. "What the computer has done," according to Stephen White of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...