Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death of Basketball Star Len Bias after a cocaine overdose caused a national outcry. Last week another death became an even more chilling symbol: the brazen assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne, 22, a New York City rookie cop guarding the home of a Queens resident who had complained about cocaine dealing in his neighborhood. A gunman fired five shots into Byrne's parked squad car, breaching a line against the deliberate killing of police that even the Mafia usually respects. An army of 10,000 lawmen, some from as far away as Texas, attended Byrne's funeral in what...
...building, Painter Tom Van Sant has filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the bank that commissioned the work, the building's new owners and the present tenant, AT&T. Meanwhile, its future still in the balance, Tilted Arc remains in lower Manhattan after seven years, more than ever the symbol of a divisiveness that the artist could not have imagined during its creation...
Clark agrees, saying, the opera "acts as a symbol that people feel good about. It shows that students are interested in something beyond the daily class routine...
...riot troops, wearing gas masks and holding clubs and shields, fired tear gas to disperse protesters. The clang of pots and pans--a familiar symbol now of anti-government protest--rang out from some apartment buildings...
...staged a big musical number in a beauty parlor to exaggerate the problem--the doctored, lighter Black women fought their darker, more natural rivals. The scene was especially appropriate because it centered on hair, which has always been a symbol of the conflict between emulation of whites and "Black is beautiful...