Word: symbolizations
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...Because sporting events are now beamed all over the world-I can watch Liverpool play live on TV in my Hong Kong apartment-it's natural to assume that sports has become a symbol of the ways in which people in places far apart share the same tastes and passions. But this is an illusion. Few sports and fewer sporting events have a truly global reach. In the U.S., most people, if asked, would tell you that Porto is a drink and Formula 1 a hair-care product. Bill Belichick may have revolutionized American football, but he could walk through...
...movie called Be Cool, the cast had better, well, be cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie runs...
...newly-minted Iraqi unit led by some of Saddam's former generals, who were given the freedom to recruit their own troops. The result is a force that directly recruited some of the very same insurgents that had battled the Marines, and was welcomed by residents as a symbol of what they saw as their "victory" over the U.S. Of course, the arrangement required the scaling down of U.S. objectives - there's no sign of the men responsible for the killing and dismembering four U.S. defense contractors being handed over, and although the U.S. has demanded that the new force...
...crystallized by the U.S. siege of Fallujah. Until recently, Baghdadis tended to view Fallujah, a town of 200,000 people some 30 miles west of the capital, as a big village notable for its conservative townsfolk and excellent grilled meats. Now, right or wrong, it has become a unifying symbol of Iraqis' clamor for self-determination. "Saddam killed the nationalist feelings inside us," says Basim Mohammed Ridha, 42, who sells fertilizer from a shop in downtown Baghdad. "The Americans have forced us to find it again...
...case the games are canceled due to war, terrorism or natural catastrophe. It's no secret that that the Greeks have other potential catastrophes on their minds. After long delays, work was expected to begin last weekend on installing the sliding roof of the main Olympic stadium - the symbol of these Games, designed by the celebrated Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Officials say it won't be ready until the end of May at the earliest. At last count 13 major construction projects remained incomplete and behind schedule. Failure to finish the work in time for the opening ceremonies would...