Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What I heard instead was a call for Black students to continue the proud legacy of the civil rights movement and take up the struggle for racial equality in the United States. "The symbol of Blacks in the '60's was Martin Luther King... Do you want the symbol of Blacks in the '90's to be Snoop Doggie Dogg?" Sharpton asked...
...story has exploded in virtually every newspaper and television station in the United States. Some argue that she is a merciless woman who attempted to castrate her husband as revenge for lack of sexual fulfillment. Other view her as the symbol of the battered woman who stood up against her bestial husband. In any event, "the cut felt around the world" has certainly reverberated throughout the American population...
...important to examine why exactly Lorena Bobbitt chose to strike back at her husband. When she dismembered John Bobbitt, she was motivated not by fear but by anger. John Bobbitt's penis was a symbol of all the pain and degradation she had been forced to suffer at his hands. By emasculating him, she hoped to make him feel as worthless and powerless as she herself must have throughout their twisted relationship. Her emotions may have been valid, her rage real. Yet unlike many other women who fight back against their batterers, her action was not an act of self...
...hour-long speech was an apt symbol of Clinton's presidency after one year: a bold, ungainly, often messy affair that moves in many directions, is impervious to order and yet, by sheer dint of effort, may prove successful. Recent polls have shown that Americans -- whatever they think of his policies and his character -- appreciate Clinton's formidable energy and his doughty resilience. And Clinton knows these traits are his biggest advantages. As he told a senior Republican lawmaker last fall, "I'm a lot like Baby Huey. I'm fat. I'm ugly. But if you push me down...
...difficult role to bring off, but Smit succeeds spectacularly. He reminds one of Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver." Trained as a classical ballet dancer, this is Andrew Kelley's debut as an actor, and it shows. However, this works to the film's advantage, since Walt is really a symbol, magnified and perfected by Jeroen's memory. Feark Smink does a marvelous turn as Jeroen's foster father...