Word: symbolizations
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...championships and a silver medal at Atlanta. Meantime, she enjoyed a really messy personal life - lawsuits by a former coach/lover, stuff like that. During the messy years she was in shape, then out, too heavy or too thin, on form or off. So Cathy was becoming more of a symbol and more human at the same time. She became a vulnerable crusader...
...Capitol dome, symbol of our democracy, turns out to be cast iron painted to look like stone--a massive, mighty but hollow facade. There must be a hidden meaning in that. In this five-episode series, author-illustrator David Macaulay (The Way Things Work) looks at megastructures--bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels--and the aspirations they embody. The series is probably a touch light for architecture buffs. For the layperson, it's an engaging look at how and why humankind shaped the landscape with seemingly impossible structures, and was shaped in turn by them...
...addition to attacking Gore's credibility, Bush this week went after his opponent as a symbol of the Democratic party of the past. Whenever Al Gore has tried to distance himself from President Clinton, his opponent has been right there with a tube of epoxy. "We don't want another four more years of Clinton/Gore," George Bush says in a typical remark repeated at almost every stop. So it was a moment for a little head-scratching in Green Bay, Wisc., Thursday when the Texas governor said that he should be elected because Al Gore wasn't enough like Bill...
...world-class theme parks. The turn of the millennium will go down as the year that the earth's fun-seeking public, at least outside the U.S., soundly rejected their governments' efforts to keep them entertained. Take Britain's Millennium Dome--please. It was conceived as a symbol of Cool Britannia. The government spent $1 billion on it, then sold it last July for just $158 million to Japanese financial group Nomura amid a flurry of bad press, worse reviews and lousy attendance reports. The heads of chief executive Jennie Page and Bob Ayling, chairman of the Dome's operators...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Officials in Cuzco, Peru, want to furl their flag, saying it too closely resembles the gay-pride banner. They complain that some visiting dignitaries refused to be photographed near it. They have sympathizers at the University of Hawaii who recently punted their team name and symbol for the same reason. An H has replaced the rainbow on helmets, and the team, previously known as the Rainbow Warriors, will simply be called the Warriors...