Word: symbolics
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...book's main strength is Ong's ability to create allegories that embody emotional truths in a suspenseful narrative. Caracera's attempt to give away his fortune is a straightforward symbol of America's historical efforts to do good?and demand love?throughout the world. Yet the reader believes in him as a complex human being, so the point is conveyed without preaching...
...Blueboy, who at once dazzles his patrons and suffers humiliation at their hands, is clearly a symbol of the Philippines, simultaneously naive and calculating, seductive and repellent; but here Ong veers into the outer reaches of bad taste. The boy's first scene, at a sex club in a Manila slum, is disgusting in the extreme, even as it strains credulity...
...slabs might topple at any moment. That, indeed, is the fear of Israeli archaeologists. Since Solomon erected his temple on Mount Moriah in 960 B.C., it has been destroyed and sacked by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Syria's Antiochus IV and two Roman Emperors. Each time it rose again, a symbol of the world's monotheistic religions. Now it is menaced by a different destroyer - the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis, for whom the old stones are nationalist territorial markers. Israelis say Palestinian reconstruction work inside the Temple Mount - begun in 1996 to turn massive underground chambers into a mosque...
Asasma Butt walked up to the entrance of the Lycée Rabelais in northern Paris last Thursday - the first day of school for students across France - she did something she didn't want to do. She removed her black head scarf, a symbol of her Muslim faith. France's new law prohibiting all religious symbols from public schools had come into effect that day, and though Butt, 18, opposes the ban - "taking off the veil bothers me every time," she said - she was submitting to it. It is, after all, the law of the republic. Almost...
...team backed into the medal round. But 12 years after the original Dream Team pulled off the improbable trick of charming its opponents while destroying them by an average of 43.8 points, Brown's U.S. squad is a long shot for gold and has become, unfairly, a fashionable symbol of American hubris. "For the record," says guard Dwayne Wade, "we know we're not the Dream Team...