Word: symbolizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week vacancy at the top was a painful symbol of the network's mounting woes. Dethroned from its No. 1 spot in the Nielsen ratings by NBC during the 1985-86 season, CBS has lately sunk to a feeble third place. Its ratings for the November "sweeps" were the lowest for any such period in its history. The ten prime-time shows CBS introduced this fall were a conservative lot, and none has been a ratings hit. Just two CBS series, 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote, finish regularly in the Top 20, and both are getting...
...little or no political experience were suddenly thrust into positions of leadership. Then as now, the European uprisings fanned the flames of nationalism and raised what came to be known as "the German question" -- the possibility that all Germans would unite in one state. In 1848 the widely despised symbol of the old order was the aged Austrian Chancellor, Klemens von Metternich. His flight from Vienna touched off the kind of rejoicing that greeted the opening of the Berlin Wall this November...
...optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then translated into a bar-code symbol for sorting mail by carrier route. With no way to slow down the machine, the clerk is like Lucille Ball in her comic routine at a candy factory. One moment, Lucy is standing at the conveyor belt blithely wrapping individual candies; the next she is stuffing unwrapped chocolates under her hat, down...
Advertisers, who know a trendy location when they see one, are flocking to / Berlin. The Wall has become a potent new symbol in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening. Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who told how they phoned friends when it opened...
LIVING: Mink, the ultimate luxury or a "sadist symbol...