Word: symbolics
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...especially after dark. They don't share the same feelings about the bridge, either. While Muslims are uniformly enthusiastic, Croats say its significance - and the importance of the reconstruction effort - has been overblown by Muslims who want to stress the town's Ottoman roots. "The bridge is not a symbol of all of Mostar," complains Croat newspaper columnist Darko Juka. But even Croats like Juka are ready to recognize that a new bridge will bring much-needed money to the town from foreign tourists. Emir Balic, the diver, is just waiting to take that plunge. "I live," he says...
Lewis and Clark gave the Jefferson Peace Medal to Indian chiefs they met as a symbol of friendship from their new "chief" in Washington
...Hideki leaves, it's a tragedy," says Jun Ikushima, a Tokyo reporter and co-author with Seattle Mariners reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa of the book My Way to Study English, which became a best seller in Japan. "Hideki's the best player in Japan now, and the Giants are the symbol of Japanese baseball. It's bigger than Ichiro leaving. We depend on Hideki for so much?his popularity, his dynamism?that if he goes, I can't imagine what will happen. I will feel emptiness. It will be the beginning of the destruction of Japanese baseball...
...vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 56, a French aerial photographer who for the past 10 years has been snapping shots of the planet from slightly closer range. He has taken more than 100,000 pictures of the earth...
...guilty; our humanity is our original sin. Anderton--on the run for a murder he hasn't thought of committing of a man he doesn't know--is oppressed by guilt because his young son was kidnapped while they were at a public swimming pool. Indeed, water, as both symbol and character, is everywhere in this film: in its Christian sense of baptism and absolution, in its dramatic function as either a hiding place (that terrific bathtub rendezvous with the cyberspiders) or a scene of tragedy (an abduction and two murderous drownings...