Word: symbolics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people with a fair amount of community property to protect generally work out. No such luck for the Roses. All kinds of good luck for moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Michael Leeson down an increasingly dark and comedically dangerous path. The problem is their house, symbol of everything they have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito) discovers an obscure statute under which they can divorce yet continue to live...
Wattleton wears the burden, though she would call it the honor, of being a role model. As a black woman, divorced mother and crusader for family planning, she feels the pressure of being held up as a symbol, and she is determined neither to let up nor to let anyone down...
...cable to a bomb attached to a bicycle parked on the limousine's route. Police say the bomb included a light-sensitive device that triggered the explosion precisely as Herrhausen's limousine passed by. Under the box was a piece of paper with the all too familiar star-shaped symbol superimposed on a drawing of a Kalashnikov rifle: the trademark of West Germany's ultra-leftist urban terrorists, the Red Army Faction...
Many other universities already license their name and insignia. Stanford, for example, regulates its name, the block "S" symbol with and without a tree, the Stanford seal and the name "Cardinal" when it refers to the school, said Maria L. Gladfelter, an administrator at the institution's licensing office. She said the program raised $257,000 last year...
...current financial condition is not healthy enough to sustain Harvard College as the symbol of academic excellence it has been in the past," Spence continued. "Our only feasible source of significant new income to meet this challenge is fundraising...