Word: symbolization
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EXPECTING. Raquel Welch, 42, Hollywood sex symbol currently wowing Broadway audiences in Woman of the Year, and her husband André Weinfeld, 36, French film writer and producer; her third, his first; in August...
...confrontations have focused on depictions of the Nativity. The government "may not participate in or promote the Christian celebration of Christmas," explained Judge Hugh Bownes in the Pawtucket case. "The crèche is purely a Christian religious symbol; this is the distinction between the crèche and Christmas as a holiday." Christmas trees, for example, are generally considered secular because of their origins in pagan rituals. Public school Christmas pageants have won court approval as long as the cultural significance outweighed the religious...
...everyone agrees with this stringently secularist approach. "If you take the symbol away from the celebration, it's almost a sterile, noncelebrative event," says Lynn Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...machine move into fast forward around the world (Japanese manufacturers, the world's leaders, have shipped 3.5 million units to Europe during the first three quarters of this year, a leap of 196% over last year), it threatens to replace the television aerial as the most familiar symbol of the global village...
...discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will not sign autographs because, says his Westport buddy Writer A.E. Hotchner (Papa Hemingway), "the majesty of the act is offensive to him." Hotchner goes on to say, "He is the most private...