Word: symbolics
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...incongruously and computer-generatedly on fire throughout an anonymous city as passers-by go about their day-to-day lives without paying attention to the flames. The band members gaze soulfully upon some of the blazes. I don’t know whether fire is a heretofore unknown symbol for loneliness or whether System of a Down just likes to burn things, but either way, no amount of cutting between the band on the bus and the fires can convince me that the two are in any way connected thematically. If the bus were to light on fire, it would...
...seem like this “wall” will alleviate domestic immigration tensions, preventing undocumented workers from entering U.S. soil. In reality, this frail three-foot high metal fence, a product of popular misconceptions about immigration, is unlikely to significantly reduce undocumented immigration and merely serves as a symbol of xenophobia and ignorance. Most Mexicans do not view crossing the border as a right—if Mexicans believed this, they would be crossing conspicuously, in broad daylight rather than digging tunnels or hiring “coyotes” to smuggle them across the border. Mexicans are well...
...everything is not lost. After seeing the ash-trace on many people across the Yard yesterday, I realized there is actually something we could give up that would enhance our spiritual lives, something as meaningful to us as abundant food for hungry Medieval city dwellers. As I saw the symbol of my religious holiday on my forehead, I also noted the myriad other symbols I carried around: an Oakley backpack, signature iPod headphones, a Nike swoosh on my running shoes, designer jeans and sweater, and I did not even dare look in my closet…the list would require...
...creating a single market for the E.U.'s j8 trillion service sector. The law will allow a service provider to comply only with the laws of his or her home country when doing business in another E.U. member state. It was this plan that made "the Polish plumber" the symbol of France's fears at the time of the referendum last year, and which brought 60,000 protesters onto the streets of Brussels last March. Labor unions and their supporters see this week's vote as critical, and plan massive demonstrations outside the Strasbourg Parliament. Monica Frassoni, an Italian M.E.P...
Prince“Black Sweat”Maybe it shouldn’t shock me that a man who once changed his name to a symbol would change something as simple as his views on sex in the media. But I can’t help but be a little astounded that Prince, a card-carrying Jehovah’s Witness who just two years ago complained to Newsweek that “Now there’s all these dirty videos...we’re bombarded,” would so quickly and so gleefully add to that bombardment...