Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes wove in and out, strafing people on the ground, the bombers unloaded some 100,000 lbs. of high-explosive, fragmentation and incendiary bombs on a small Basque town in the green hills of northern Spain. When the bombers left, a town had been smashed to rubble, but a symbol was born-still evoked for many by Pablo Picasso's best-known and most terrifying canvas...
...ungodly tailored." According to Designer Caulfield, the new look's popularity has a lot to do with the financial side of women's lib. "A working woman can afford to buy herself a $40 camisole, and she will reward herself with one." The look is also a symbol of today's more open sexuality, Caulfield maintains. "When a young woman gets dressed in the morning, she doesn't know where she's going to get undressed." For that matter, when she wears a corselette or a camisole, some observers may not be able to tell...
...will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application of nuclear energy seems to be inseparable from the nightmarish images of the atomic bomb." Many people, especially the young, regard the nuclear reactor as a symbol of a "hopelessly technocratic, centralized, hierarchical society implacably destructive of natural resources and human values." As a consequence, says Strohl, the debate is degenerating into sterile confrontation between dogmatic opponents and intransigent defenders of the atom...
...Phony justice" and "Basta! Enough of violence against the bodies of women." Outside, more than 2,000 militant feminists crying "Viva Claudia!" and "Claudia is not afraid!" marched defiantly past riot police and raised their hands in a triangular sign denoting the womb. The gesture has become a feminist symbol of solidarity...
...images go, you can't beat it: the Goodyear blimp suddenly looming large and low-much too low-over the Orange Bowl. To turn that benign and stately symbol of the country in a holiday mood into an instrument of unpredictable menace is a stroke of Pop-cult genius. If the blimp can run amuck, even in fantasy, what is there left that we can rely...