Word: symbolizations
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...happened in a delivery room in Palm Beach, Florida: DONALD TRUMP'S transformation from a self-promoting symbol of '80s excess to a self-promoting symbol of '90s sensitivity. The financially straitened mogul stood by his girlfriend MARLA MAPLES' side throughout the birth of their love child, Tiffany Ariana.He even cut the umbilical cord. Twenty minutes later he was on the phone with reporters talking about the baby...
...their lives, and quite reasonably so,'' says an American diplomat. ''Since the coup, they've done only what Cedras and Francois dictate.'' Under Cedras' scheme, the Senate could reject numerous nominations before agreeing to people he and Francois find acceptable. Once again, Aristide would be a figurehead, a symbol the world could toast as Haiti's real power was held by goons. Having heard nothing by Saturday afternoon, Cedras seemed to budge again. In an interview with TIME's Ed Barnes, Cedras waved a copy of the U.N. Charter as he declared the U.S. embargo ''illegal.'' Nevertheless, he said...
...nervous breakdown. It is tempting to relate the extraordinary sharpness of focus, the dreamlike distinctness of Miro's early rural images to the fevered impressionability of a convalescent mind. The countryside in general, and Montroig in particular, would always exercise a peculiar fascination for Miro. The farm was the symbol of what Catalans call enyoranca -- a sort of global, unappeasable nostalgia, a longing for the past and for one's roots. Miro was set on going to Paris, knowing perfectly well -- as any young painter did at the end of World War I -- that the French avant-garde...
...means to be a teenager in today's world," she says. They gave her a charm for her bracelet--a lock in the shape of a heart. Her father has the key. "On my wedding day, he'll give it to my husband," she explains. "It's a symbol of my father giving up the covering of my heart, protecting me, since it means my husband is now the protector. He becomes like the shield to my heart, to love me as I'm supposed to be loved...
Nowadays, many of those exiles have returned home and joined one of the most exciting contemporary-art scenes in the world. But the explosion in Beijing's arts world is only one aspect of a broader cultural, social and even commercial flowering of the capital, until recently a symbol of authoritarian conformity to many outside China. Much has been written about the transformation of Beijing's hardware ahead of this summer's Olympic Games--both the whirlwind of development that has swept away huge swaths of the old city and the waves of cars that are choking its roads...