Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about the Pill one week and, who knows, love poetry the next." One sign of how topical the subject has become is the number of cover stories and other major articles that have already run in TIME. Kate Millett appeared on the cover in 1970 as a symbol of the feminist revolution. Last March we devoted an entire special issue to The American Woman. We have also had cover stories on the plight of the homosexual in America, on sex and the teenager, Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson and on the sex explosion in the arts...
...started off with a diatribe against British policy toward Uganda, especially London's recent decision to cancel a $24 million aid program, which Amin dismissed as "whitemailing." Henceforth, he declared, all British place names in Uganda would be replaced by African ones, and the Kampala Club, a stuffy symbol of British empire that had remained virtually allwhite, would become the "Government Club," a meeting place for Big Daddy and his cronies...
Many Japanese corporations consider it a necessary status symbol to hang a Matisse or a Renoir in their VIP reception rooms. Japan's newly rich are also well aware that such art is now a good investment. One Osaka real estate baron recently won fame in the trade by phoning an art dealer these directions: "Get me 100 million yen [$330,000] worth of art-get me whatever you think would prove moneymaking." Japanese art buyers are operating like Sony executives all over Europe and the U.S. "No hammers go down nowadays either at Christie's or Sotheby...
...what he called "a very significant rock, composed of many fragments of all sizes and shapes and colors." Speaking directly to youngsters of 78 nations who had been invited to Houston for the final moon shot, Cernan said that the rock would be divided among their countries "as a symbol that we can live in peace and harmony in the future." Then, after moving back to Challenger, Cernan unveiled a plaque on the ship's descent stage, which would remain behind on the moon. Evoking the words of a similar plaque left behind by the Apollo 11 astronauts...
Marshack concluded, "The definition of an art work is an image made. What I'm finding is not an image made to be looked at, but made as a symbol to be used and added...