Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tequila Sunrise. Throughout the country, tequila appeals most strongly to the young, for whom it serves as something of a maturity symbol. Its biggest new markets beyond California are states with high college enrollments, notably Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois; the major distributors promote their product heavily on campus. The tequila boom was partly pushed by the Rolling Stones, who swigged the stuff on tour, and another rock group, the Eagles, who recorded a hit called Tequila Sunrise (named for the tequila potion made with orange juice and grenadine...
...grade on a paper and the grade on the final exam, respectively. There are two interpretations of the water: either it is Odysseus's exam, which he will overcome only with the help of Leukothea's magic veil (corresponding to present-day crib notes), or it is a symbol of Odysseus's knowledge, and thus the source of his consternation, "barren...
Although they themselves may not have realized it, for many Italians Pasolini was a living symbol. He represented the darker side of an Italian psyche, the nightmare of the Italian middle-class. (As, say, Frankenstein was the dark side of the Romantic soul. And Pasolini was among the last Romantics.) Acting as Italy's walking conscience, Pasolini not only pointed an accusing finger at all the economic, political, aesthetic and emotional problems of the society, but internalized them, making them his own neuroses. A sensitive, intelligent individual, he could not accept the easy solutions: to be a member...
...sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...
...relationship of 18 months lingered on--a superficial symbol of what I still believed to be the status...