Word: symbolics
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...Candy Christian) mere days after Faulkner's funeral. His novelist's eye colors his perceptions: "Next to the benches, and about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked 'For Colored' is sitting squarely in the shadow cast by the justice symbol on the courthouse fa*ade - to be entered later, of course, in my writer's notebook, under 'Imagery, sociochiaroscurian, hack...
...Monticello, half Taj Mahal. It is the new home of a leading member of the Masri family, the most powerful and wealthy clan in Nablus. It is a reminder, too, of the differences between the unruly refugee camp and the Palestinian metropolis in the West Bank, and a symbol of the extreme tensions that exist within Palestinian society, riven these days between rich and poor, Christian and Muslim and dozens of other fractures. Even as Arafat struggled last week to deliver on his promise of a cease-fire, controlling anti-Israeli violence promises to be difficult because it also means...
...wearing the new lids, soon the whole Army will. The simple makeover has been turning heads, but not in a good way. The decision by the Army last October to make the berets part of the uniform enraged the elite Army Rangers, who were suddenly losing their distinctive symbol. After much debate, the Rangers agreed to switch to tan berets, which they say are reminiscent of the D-Day beaches, sand in the Persian Gulf and khaki uniforms worn in Vietnam and Korea...
...been stressing, over Blair's "wait and see" approach (27% to 26%), this issue ranks a mere 11th in importance. Funeral pyres of diseased livestock may be spewing smoke over the countryside, some of Blair's ministers may have resigned in disgrace, the Millennium Dome may be a universal symbol of grandiose incompetence - but Sue Heppel, a shop assistant who watched Hague campaign in Portsmouth, sums up the dominant view: "The Conservatives bitch a lot. Labour hasn't had a chance to finish everything off." Barring an upheaval, Blair will be easily returned to office on Thursday...
...season's most enduring image, and certainly an appropriate symbol for the season. After a grueling offseason training program and two-a-day practices in September, the 2000-2001 Crimson (23-11, 11-6 CWPA) enjoyed its best season in almost a decade. The team finished third at the Northern Championships-easily bettering last year's seventh-place finish-to advance to Easterns for the first time in eight years...