Word: symbolization
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...herself cool by association. And unlike Madonna, who dressed as a man and handed over her signature song to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at last year’s MTV Awards, Jackson was still insisting, even in her late 30s, that she be taken seriously as a sex symbol, worthy of the attention of men young enough to be in college...
...since many of their parents have given up most Muslim practices—but rather as the invention of a new identity in contention with the national values of a country that has marginalized them ethnically or socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much a symbol of repudiation of France as it is a token of belonging to Islam. The intent of the new law is not to undermine cultural diversity—there is no calling into question religious freedom outside the secular setting of public education. It will, however, disarm students of the tools they...
...etiolated figures hovering in nonphysical space, reflects this. He even deforms eyes, and may have invented the ecstatic upward glance with a liquid highlight that can be seen on the strangely conical eyeballs of Mary Magdalen in Penitence (early 1580s). Not just a saint, she is also a symbol of repentance: a state of mind the church wished to encourage in its followers...
...dark, rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal side...
...electrons that shoot through our neural superhighways control movement. Eventually, they hope to build devices that will enable victims of paralysis to communicate with digital gadgets--or their own limbs--via brain implants. Cyberkinetics is a concrete example of the crumbling wall between life and technology--and a useful symbol for everything else...