Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Needing some symbol of their status, the residents of Park Avenue have commissioned a largely symbolic guard. The Vatican has the Swiss Guard; Park Avenue has its doormen...
...know how to cook, but those who can cook treat it almost like a hobby, not a daily task. The rest survive on large quantities of frozen food, spaghetti and Ramen Noodles. Some of them have not even bothered to buy beds, sleeping instead on our decade's great symbol of student life, the futon. Others watch "Ally McBeal" and actually identify with...
...remiss if I were to fail to mention one last symbol of power that I encounter daily on Park Avenue. Each day, as I wade through piles of second class mail, I am beset with magazines from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The best and brightest of the past few generations are living well and are inundated with mail from their alma maters. Sadly, too many of the Harvard alumni show some sort of interest in me only when they learn that I go to their alma mater. Only then do I cease to be an automaton, only then do they...
KATIE COURIC NBC pays up to re-up Today anchor for four years. Holds her own against sex symbol Matt Lauer...
...sounds like a plot from the Simpsons: The conservative town council of Republic near Springfield, Mo., and a local witch are in court over a Christian fish symbol adorning the town seal. Jean Webb, a local practitioner of the pagan Wicca faith wants it removed. Wicca, a faith based in pre-Christian European beliefs, upholds the sacredness of nature and includes the practice of witchcraft. The town is fighting the lawsuit; Webb alleges local citizens have had her fired from her job at the local newspaper and are subjecting her family to harassment. Removing the fish would leave the Republic...