Word: symbolics
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...costume, Webb wears a tarnished silver dress, ripped stockings on her arms and legs and large rabbit ears. Combining the symbol of the Playboy bunny with ripped and ragged clothing, she says the costume is meant to be a political statement about the contradictory aspects of femininity...
...artists, intellectuals, bohemians, musicians, socialites and hangers-on soaked up the atmosphere and added to the legend. It was into this electric world of jazz, fashion and culture that Huene, an aristocratic Russian emigré, found himself. Before long he was the chief photographer of Paris Vogue, and a symbol of the very world he captured so beautifully on film. In 1930, Huene met Horst in a cafe and became both his artistic mentor and his lover. He taught Horst the tricks of the trade and turned him into a superb photographer...
Currier: On the Currier House shield, the red field represents Harvard, while the black bar is taken from the two diagonal stripes of the Radcliffe arms. The golden tree represents the “Radcliffe apple tree,” used as a symbol in the fund drive to complete the construction of Currier House. The Currier House shield also discreetly refers to the Currier family. The term “currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather...
...there have been very few tourists since Sept. 11, and America's greatest symbol of consumerism has been suffering from the aftershocks of the attacks. The MOA is a ghost mall, with visitors down at least 30% and more on weekdays. Conventions have been canceled, tourists are afraid to fly, the national economy is unsteady, and the largest state-worker strike in Minnesota history just ended after two weeks. Worse yet, a rumor has been floating around that the MOA is next on al-Qaeda's hit list. And a widely circulated e-mail warning that malls will...
...idealism that flourished in the 1960s but is far less credible today. In the documentary of the infamous 1969 “Bed-In,” the power of the peace sign for Lennon and Ono’s anti-war audience is remarkable. Now, however, that symbol seems hopelessly anachronistic. The romantic imagination that the “Bed-In” required has been significantly weakened by the passage of time, stripped of its once revolutionary force by post-conceptual pragmatism...