Word: symbolics
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...horrific years behind bars, until death. How could you not see what a tragic deal this was? Or maybe you did and didn't care; you imagined yourself impervious. You slipped past regulators. You fooled your family, friends and customers. You fooled yourself. You are perhaps the final symbol of our times - greed at any cost, even at that of your own life, that of our entire system. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...seem natural - as well as the idea that a First World Western country would be run by a tyrant in pinstripes, selected as King by God, who made a crown of butterflies alight on his head as a sign of divine mandate. (Gilboa's emblem is a butterfly, a symbol made unexpectedly ominous by its resemblance to an upside-down NBC peacock.) (See the top 10 TV series...
...never convincingly substantiates the link between violence in medieval culture and contemporary fetishization of the gruesome. His myriad examples of medieval brutality serve to illuminate a variety of individual points about the culture of the Middle Ages—the importance of blood to embody sacrifice, the symbol of the nose as linked to sexual mutilation, or the violent religious expressions of martyrdom—but it’s difficult to see the coherence of his overall argument about its meaning today.Groebner’s exploration of the medieval obsession with the nose as the prime organ...
...Michelle Obama the Rosie the Riveter of the Bernie Madoff era? Maureen Dowd seems to think so. “Let’s face it,” she writes in the New York Times, “The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps.” In recent weeks the First Lady’s skin-bearing sartorial habits have become something of a controversy. Co-columnist David Brooks has even gone so far as to assert that Obama...
...sure, the boom - years of 5% growth and soaring exports - is over. Industrial production has plunged. Even Embraer, the aircraft maker whose jets sell to scores of airlines, and which has become a symbol of Brazil's newfound confidence, recently announced plans to lay off 4,000 employees, almost one-fifth of its workforce. Commodity exports - soybeans, steel - are weak. The main stock market is down 25% since September. But Lula, a former shoe-shine boy who heads the leftist Workers Party (PT), has so far kept the good times from becoming a hellish bust. In Brazil, that's nothing...