Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worldwide Prestige. Most of all, perhaps, the Shah is attracted to Pan Am by the worldwide prestige he will enjoy from his association with the airline. In many nations, the "blue meatball"-as airline executives refer to Pan Am's familiar globelike insignia-is regarded as a symbol of American technology and economic power...
...18th and 19th centuries had been laid, even down to the kind of horses. Rubens' standard horse, a prancing, thick-barrelled animal with nervous fet locks, cascading tail, wild, rolling eyes and distended nostrils, was repeated by Géricault and Delacroix until it became the very symbol of the romantics' sense of organic energy. In portraiture, Rubens' sense of the grand manner and his way of putting figures convincingly within nature would deeply affect both Gainsborough and Reynolds, the leading English art theorist of his time. Reynolds greatly admired Rubens' "airiness and facility...
...drive for greater energy independence, the Permian Basin is booming again. Now rising above the West Texas city of Midland (pop. 63,000), which serves as the white-collar headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected not in the skyline...
...THAT Watergate has been exhausted in its guises of scourge against malfeasance in high office, extripator of coporate corrucpiton, readjustor of the government's delicate system of checks and balances, symbol of a moral cancer on the nation's breast, reaffirmation of the viability of the Constitution, and harbiger of a new age of honesty in politics, the nation's journalists and academicians are now drafting its services as yet another symbol: polluter of the American language...
...they've got nothing for me." 20. Mac Arthur. 21. Hoover. 22. John J. O'Brien. 23. William Randolph Hearst. 24. "It's a lot easier." 25. "Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops." 26. "Courage." 27. The symbol of the NRA. 28. Payless paydays. 29. "Many people have left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples." 30. Nixon. 31. Ford,while meeting with economic advisors at Vail, Colo. 32. Ford, Gas taxes. 33. Inflation. 34. Inflation, recession,and the energy crisis. 35. "Count every penny...