Word: symbolizations
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...Frank Keating, who used to work with several of those killed, had been a mere three months in office when the bombing occurred. One should really go to the memorial at night, he tells me. "To see those chairs lighted; it makes you understand that each chair is a symbol of a human life lost. The hillside of lights is overwhelming. I met a woman who lost her father in the bombing, and I expressed my sympathy. But she seemed to take solace from the chairs, and unlike some others, she did sit in the chair with her father...
...given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead of the symbol I adopted to free myself from all undesirable relationships," he said at a press conference. Proving that he bristles at all forms of bondage, Prince also elucidated the nature of his annulled marriage to the woman simply referred to as Mayte: "She does her thing, I do my thing, and sometimes...
...could be that SGM is an induplicable exception. But talk to foreign executives on the ground--including the skeptics who ruled that GM would never make it--and they'll tell you SGM's achievements are a remarkable symbol of what is possible. "It's the vision thing," says Patrick Cranley, head of the Cigna insurance group and chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. "GM knows what it is in China...
During the 1990 census, a million was a meaningful number. Due to a Michigan state law which has since been revoked, Detroit stood to lose state funding if its population dropped below a million. Since then, a million has become meaningless symbol of greatness akin to being the home of the world's tallest thermometer (that proud distinction belongs to Baker...
...Prince has reverted back to being just Prince. I anticipate tons of "humorous" references to him as The Artist-Formerly-but-now-Currently-Known-As-Prince. But the name change is a good thing. For one, it saves me time, since the Crimson doesn't have that weird symbol-thing among its font files. Here's my best attempt at creating it using standard keyboard characters: O!+~. Anyone have any better efforts...