Word: symbolization
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...made national headlines that the twins have started studying for the SATs and have begun a preliminary college search. Back in the day when I was a tween, I saw Claire Danes head off to Yale. What could better complete the twins’ package, further attaching another symbol and brand to their tween identity, than Harvard itself? Imagine viewers’ reactions as the girls move their stuff into their Grays middle suite during first-year move-in day 2005. It would make a great ABC special...
...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
...fearsome thing to be turned into an icon, draped with powers and meanings of other people's choosing. To the thousands who wrote letters, sent teddy bears and flowers and handmade quilts, to the millions who prayed for her safety, Lynch is an archetypal American soldier, a symbol of courage under fire. As the challenge in Iraq grows, as the nightly body count reminds us of the terrible risks the soldiers face, people want to show they care. Lynch's is the name they know, and so the letters keep pouring in, and old women press notes scribbled on napkins...
...have a staff. Says Trelfa: "I used to have a dedicated phone line for one of my clients in my home office and would answer it as if I were just at another one of my client's business locations." V.A.s have also become something of a status symbol. Says Booker-Brown, who operates a virtual-assistance business called RightHand Concepts: "When a client's customers see that they have an assistant, it lends a certain legitimacy to their business in the minds of others...
...will padlock the back doors to deal makers and influence peddlers,” he said, waving a broom—which had been a symbol of his campaign pledge to clean up city hall...