Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minnesota, is exactly the kind of place you'd expect to be owned and operated by a lavishly weird recording star like Prince. The wildly talented singer-songwriter doesn't go by the name of Prince anymore, of course; in 1993 he changed his name to the unpronounceable glyph [symbol for the artist formerly known as Prince], and now most people call him either "the artist formerly known as Prince" or, more familiarly, "the Artist...
Always he carried his white plastic ice bucket, the relic of a revolutionary agenda, of his achievement in ending the twice-a-day ice deliveries to congressional offices. The bucket stops here. It had become an inadvertently pathetic symbol...
...forget that the fas% is your key to the status symbol of the 1990s: your very own page on the World Wide Web! Forgo pine for a bit, and you can create a masterpiece about, well, anything you feel like putting...
...full of energy, with marks and dribbles of wax encaustic over a ground of glued-on newspaper. On one hand, Johns seemed devoted to the flag--but his devotion was esthetic, not patriotic. On the other, by treating its sacred form as mutable, he undermined it as a conventional symbol. And since he did so without any visible aggression or skepticism, you couldn't tell where he stood in the American frame...
With El Paso an immigration tripwire, the 16th District couldn't ask for a better candidate than Reyes, whose controversial program to stop illegal aliens made him a symbol of national self-determination. And though he doesn't want to be a one-issue candidate, the election outcome will likely depend on voters' opinions of his tough stand on the Rio Grande...