Word: symbolics
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...Islamic belief, such as banning alcohol sales in certain neighborhoods and providing segregated buses for female students. It also lists many references to the Prime Minister's recent drive to lift the ban on headscarves in universities, including his controversial remark that "If the headscarf is a political symbol, then so be it". (Secularists' biggest concern is that the headscarf is in fact such a symbol, and that allowing it on campuses will foment an "us vs. them" mentality...
...Before It Falls’When authors, editors, publishers, and their marketing minions conveneto discuss what shall adorn their precious new creation, many questionsmust trouble them. “How do we seduce readers? Do we assume theycan’t actually read the title and need some symbolism? Or do we justput something on the cover so completely strange that they must immediatelybuy the book to find out what lies inside?” From the looks of thebooks in the front of the Harvard Books Store today, there’s no one rightanswer.The Philosopher?...
...Paradigm Hotel Rwanda (2004) The 1994 genocide serves as a wake-up call to the West, with Rwanda as a bleak symbol of ignored injustices everywhere...
...ongoing skirmishes with Babylon; as retribution, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, raiding Solomon's Temple and seizing 10,000 Jews to help build his city. This brutal history would later color the portrayal of Babylon in the Bible. "In Christian culture, Babylon was quite deliberately developed as a broad symbol of the city of sin," says Michael Seymour, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern collection. Indeed, over the centuries, Judeo-Christian texts would consistently imbue Babylon with a sense of evil. A 14th century Flemish manuscript of Saint Augustine's "City of God" contrasts Babylon with...
...wasted talent and gambling addiction. The visual representations of characters extend to their wardrobes. Penelope’s playful wardrobe of jumpers, opaque tights, and Mary Jane’s captures a girl on the edge of womanhood. Her blue coat with red piping and mismatched buttons becomes a symbol of unconventionality, as little girls go trick-or-treating in lower-budget versions of it. McAvoy is a wonderful leading man and Catherine O’Hara is perfect as an overbearing mom. Another actor, Simon Woods, pops off the screen as Edward, an utterly repulsive upper-class twit. Ricci...