Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...included a wood sculpture of Playboy's Hugh Hefner (March 3, 1967) in the days before the coming of women's liberation; Bobby Kennedy (May 24, 1968) just prior to the California primary; and a sculpture of Raquel Welch (Nov. 28, 1969), the sex-symbol star of Myra Breckinridge...
...fighting in the capital, by week's end the new rulers appeared to be consolidating their power. Their first priority seemed to be to explain to Afghanistan's mostly Moslem population of 18 million that they had moved against the Daoud regime because it had become "a symbol of injustice, oppression, exploitation and corruption...
...story granite headquarters of the Sun Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British Empire, the secular cathedral of the English-speaking business elite in the world's second largest French-speaking city. Now it is a symbol of panic in the face of Quebec's threat to separate from the rest of Canada. Last week Sun Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest...
Became the symbol of tranquility
...that now. "It's like a marriage," says Misha. "I feel as if I am in a church, and in church you do not think of divorce. Some people here are skeptical, but my Russian friends will understand at once and rejoice. There Balanchine is an incredible symbol of uncompromised creative genius." It just could be the dance marriage of the century...