Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gravest error the Republicans may have made was not resting their case with Barbara Bush. Instead they also spotlighted Marilyn Quayle as the symbol of their baby-boomer professional woman who gave it all up for the man she loves. Those worried about Hillary Clinton being a co-President (although in 11 years as First Lady in Arkansas, no one accused her of being co-Governor) should take a look at Mrs. Quayle's activities. She was her husband's campaign manager and has an office near his in the Old Executive Office Building, where she spends much...
...symbol of the Ivory Coast's profound cultural disjunction is a huge edifice that rises from flat green fields at Yamoussoukro, Houphouet's native village: the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which cost some $175 million, a gesture of lifeless grandiosity. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Ismail Serageldin, director of the technical department at the World Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people...
...city dwellers, wild deer are perhaps the ultimate symbol of bucolic country life. But for many who live in the country and the suburbs, the animals are little better than rats with hooves, pests that voraciously eat gardens and crops, collide with cars and play host to ticks that carry Lyme disease. From a turn-of-the-century low of 500,000, white-tailed deer in the continental U.S. have rebounded to a population of 25 million -- about as many as there were before hunting, land-clearing Europeans colonized America -- and that is just too many to coexist comfortably with...
...frame, as the book suggests, is frequently a matter of the masses following a fad that someone behind the scenes has set in motion. After all, if no one had put the idea in our heads that he was a sex symbol, who would be impressed with an asexual, surgically reconstructed rock star like Michael Jackson...
Bush also said that America is respected around the world as a symbol of liberty and success...