Word: symbolization
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...breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover to a design without the pendant. The offending package had gone...
...have always preferred hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is warm and filling. It is a symbol, of winter days and sledding in the back yard with my older brother. Quite simply, hot chocolate is my youth, condensed and poured into one little styrofoam cup. Of course I prefer hot chocolate...
John Reed is "a symbol of good relations between the United States and the Soviet Union [who] represents the friendly face of America" to the Soviet poeple. Ferrick said...
...example of America's ability to compete overseas. Transnautic, a Hamburg firm that coordinates ship traffic in the West German port, has been a satisfied customer indeed, buying many high-tech IBM products over the past decade. But last week the Transnautic-IBM connection gained unwanted notoriety as a symbol of the internal dissension that marks the U.S. Government's campaign to protect America's high-tech secrets. Reason: 51% of Transnautic is owned by the Soviet Union...
This season preverbal toddlers turn up as characters on no fewer than three new series. The children are a fitting symbol for TV's discovery of yuppies and their world. Young married couples, coping with baby strollers and middle- of-the-night feedings, are a chief focus of two new family dramas, thirtysomething and A Year in the Life. Striving young professionals -- single, well appointed and usually living in New York City -- populate several others...