Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while it looked as if he would win by a landslide. After eight years of Republican rule-which included, along with many accomplishments, Viet Nam, Watergate, the recession-Americans seemed tired of the old political faces and became mistrustful of almost anyone with ties to Washington, symbol of all that had been going wrong...
...Western-style supermarkets in Warsaw, a line of people 20 yds. long extends out the door and into the chilly darkness. It is mostly women, bundled in heavy coats and woolen scarves, their cheeks turned crimson by the subfreezing temperature. It is the ubiquitous meat queue, the most common symbol of Poland's political and economic malaise...
...tougher than her august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...
...only appropriate, then, that Old Glory last week was finally elevated to its rightful position by another symbol of Dixie's resistance. With no fanfare, Governor George Wallace ordered the Stars and Stripes placed atop the capitol dome flagpole, with the Alabama banner beneath it and the Confederate standard in the lowest position. The action, said State Archivist Milo Howard, was "a gesture of friendliness to 25% to 30% of our population...
...years, the earnest little film magazines have been trying to explicate Kong's appeal. He has been persuasively portrayed as a political as well as a sexual symbol. If he is monumentally powerful, he is also totally innocent, a not entirely farfetched projection of nations and races that the capitalist countries have for years exploited. In the new Kong, the oil company executives want to exhibit him as a symbol of corporate might, just as the movie producer wanted to exploit him as a freak in the original. It is Kong's awakening to this outrage as much...