Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...romance between Americans and their huge, gleaming cars. Like all long affairs, it has had its ups and downs, even periods of disenchantment, but it has always held together. More than any other purchased object, more even than other complex machines, the family car historically has been a symbol of status, power and freedom. For many citizens, few other experiences could match the exhilaration of rolling down the highway at 65 m.p.h.; fewer still could top the pride of telling the family that the latest raise would permit the purchase of a still bigger car, with air conditioning. With...
...past few years, unprecedented numbers of Americans have been buying smaller, cheaper autos. Now the energy crisis has focused on the U.S. car, which consumes 28% of the nation's petroleum; gasoline shortages are forcing multitudes more to take a second look at their prized possession, not as status symbol or love object but purely as a means of transportation...
...Mendizabel, was killed in a Shootout with police last April, the Basques had been silent. Earlier this month, however, they burst into action again, invading an exclusive yacht club near Bilbao. While gunmen forced 100 diners to lie on the floor, other Basques set fire to the building, a symbol of a moneyed, privileged class favored by the Franco regime. Other more minor incidents, like the blowing up of cars, occurred in the following days, and there were reports-probably unfounded-that the Basques were receiving advice and training from the Irish Republican Army. Political observers believed that...
...difficult bargaining ahead. Said Kissinger: "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights face each other. We are challenged by emotions so deeply felt that the tragic march from cataclysm to cataclysm sometimes seems preordained. Yet our presence here today is a symbol of rejection of this fatalistic view...
...Africa, tribal priestesses once braided their hair as a symbol of their religious powers, and warriors plaited prior to battle. Modern-day American braiders have different motives. "It means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance...