If they do have a symbolic meaning, it is not about the meaning of a symbol but about the right to symbolize, to think expansively and metaphorically in a city given to thinking economically about nearly everything.
He wasn't yet sure what he would provide, but this theme — of an American symbol about to land on a Chinese archetype — intrigued him.
His dramatic decision to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol came about as a gambit to escape his contract with Warner and win back his mastertapes.
Growing up in Latvia in the 1960s, when it was still a part of the USSR, Big Ben became a symbol for dreams about a different, faraway world.
By the time I reached it I was starting to fall into such a state of nauseous alienation that I saw Kinski as a symbol of Art, about to be crushed by the lethal glamour of Money and the Market.
Mario Brito, 38, who also has been involved in discussions with City Hall, said several events were in the works to highlight the foreclosure crisis, one of the movement's defining issues "The tents are a symbol, no question about it," Mr. Brito said.
Later this year, emoji users around the world will finally have a symbol to text about emotional support peacocks, anatomically correct lobsters, and gingers.
This deeply privileged universe of Marmite and umbrellas has allowed Britishness a place in the new millennium, repositioning the Union Jack as a symbol of complaining about weather rather than the banner of colonisation and genocide.
And then, as the situation in Iraq quickly worsened, I realized that the toppling had been, as a symbol of the war, just about completely wrong — and for me, all the more important, insofar as a narrative study of it really needed to be done.
Today it has turned into a symbol of the decay brought about by an inept government, organized crime and economic crisis.
