Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homosexuality. In women's tennis, rumors have swirled around several stars, including King, but until now have rarely got into print. The sport has long struggled to achieve relative parity with men's tennis in prestige and purses, and King has been a leader and a symbol of its progress. It would be sad irony if her imbroglio now precipitated its decline. -By BennettH. Beach. Reported by Benjamin W. Cate/Los Angeles
...must remember that preppy fashion's value lies in the monetary symbol of its diverse logos. The sole charm of a Lacoste shirt is the Lacoste. The Handbook confirms this: "Subtleties of cut, weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest...
...Louis has long been loved as a city of beer and baseball, riverboats and tree-lined avenues, French fur traders, German burghers, and that distinctive 630-ft.-high stainless-steel arch, a symbol of the city's historic role as "Gateway to the West." At the turn of the century, St. Louis was the nation's fourth largest city. It is the birthplace of T.S. Eliot, the ice cream cone and, some say, the blues...
...also signaled its intent to make liberal artists toe the party line. In the first place, the commentary charged that the script was rife with "anarchy, extreme individualism and bourgeois liberalism." It even took aim at the movie's recurrent image of flying geese in formation-a sinister symbol of emigration from China. Furthermore, it said, the gloomy picture that Unrequited Love drew of the Cultural Revolution besmirched the party's leadership. Said the commentary: "Criticizing mistakes of the party is not patriotism, but an insult to patriotism. The film gives the impression that one could feel some...
...that is by way of saying that in an increasingly inelegant world, Short is the very symbol of elegance, style and an easier way of life: penthouses, champagne and buckets of dry wit. Not too long ago, his appeal seemed largely confined to New York City. Now just about everybody seems to be enchanted by Bobby and his friends-Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Cy Coleman and Stephen Sondheim. By the end of April he will have appeared in Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. At the end of this week he will entertain the Reagans and their special guest, Prince...