In the populous South Shore Town of Babylon, as in much of Long Island, excess is an emblem of success.
The lamp is the emblem of success for Gordon Gekko's protégé, Bud Fox, in the 1987 film "Wall Street".
"Part of it is that Trump's an emblem of success, and the other part of it is he taps people's anger," Green said.
This carapace favored by flight attendants and stern-faced high school principals reached the summit of its popularity in the late 80's, vying with the power suit as an emblem of success -- and matronly complacency.
Emblems alike of success and failure, of continuity and extinction, of weirdness and familiarity, they are fit objects on to which we can project all our manifold obsessions and concerns: as mutable and contradictory as human society itself.
As the magazine increasingly came to define significant trends and discerning taste in rock and pop music, appearances on its cover were coveted by established as well as up-and-coming musicians as emblems of critical success.
Simmons had established her reputation as an original and provocative artist who explored the strange power of human surrogates, but the emblems of greater success — the soaring prices and the international acclaim that had enshrined a few of her contemporaries, including Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman — were nowhere in sight.
Indeed, such impressions are substantiated by a small but visible group of artists in Dakar who bear all the emblems of financial success – a villa equipped with the latest electronic gadgets, a car, regular international travel, and exhibition reviews in one of Dakar's many newspapers.
It's a compliment to the place that they seemed determined to colonise it as an emblem of their success.
Successive years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, moreover, have further dented the mood of business confidence that once made Concorde an emblem of worldly success.
