Word: symbolizations
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Should the Confederate battle flag, to many a symbol of racism and slavery, fly atop the South Carolina state house? Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John S. McCain, the two front-runners in the GOP primary there Saturday, have been frantically evading the question for weeks...
Bush, asked repeatedly about the flag on the campaign trail, says he thinks South Carolinians should decide the issue for themselves. McCain, days after calling the flag offensive in January, changed his mind and in a terse statement said he saw the flag as "a symbol of heritage," despite the fact that the flag was not flown over the state house until 1962, when South Carolina politicians wished to mark their resistance to the civil rights movement during a Civil War centennial...
...Democrats and independents--I think that's a sign of electability. I would like to preserve our Republican base and make [it] attractive to Democrats the same way Ronald Reagan did." That could be the most crucial lesson McCain learned from any of his heroes: become the living, breathing symbol of what voters want, and the fine points of the plan might not mean so much...
...want one from Alcatraz. You know, Birdman of Alcatraz. The fact that it's an island and for prisoners, the idea of flight. The feather has to do with defying gravity, up or down. Also, the feather, white feathers particularly, can be a symbol of cowardice. I like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those...
...office in Oxygen's loftlike downtown Manhattan headquarters (very new-media-start-up, very exposed-pipes-and-brick). "He said, 'Hmmm. Network for women. What're you going to do, fashion?'" Not exactly. When the channel launches on Feb. 2 (the date, 02/02, plays off the chemical symbol for oxygen), it will offer a mix of talk shows, comedy and women-oriented finance, sports and consumer shows, from a positive, sister-solidarity perspective. What "fashion" there is comes in forms like a comic riff on the empowering influence of a little black cocktail dress...