Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kremlin, once the seat and symbol of absolute power, now has the air of a museum, a sprawling, drafty memento mori of the old regime. The long corridors are eerily silent; the guards seem listless. The nameplates on most doors have been removed. Many rooms are not just empty; they seem abandoned. Boris Yeltsin has moved in, but a number of his advisers have stayed behind at the Russian Parliament to massage legislators who are restless -- if not rebellious -- over the price their constituents are paying for reform...
Regardless of the real reason for the timing of this campaign, it would seem that the Rev. Gomes is being attacked now because of his recent announcement. Gomes has been turned into a symbol for a cause: the cause of lowering and limiting the rights of homosexuals. More generally, this cause represents the limitation of rights of those people who are different from the people in control. Being a Jew, I cannot help but remember the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust because they were different, not to mention the homosexuals, gypsies and other groups that were Hitler...
That's an interesting thought, the idea that government might be respectable enough that it could be degraded. Unfortunately, commercialized degradation as a symbol of our government is not inappropriate at all. Just ask President Bush...
...another not too surprising event, Pat neglected to ask the couple what should have been the central question of the interview: whether the government is paying for them to attend the Games. And furthermore, who elected Don Johnson as a symbol of America...
...national symbol of a failed energy policy and a failed energy technology," said Cushing...