Word: symbolics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actor Tony Goldwyn (most commonly known as the bad guy in Ghost) makes his directorial debut with this film. The story centers around Perl (Diane Lane), the film's symbol of change and uncertainty. Pearl's family spends every summer at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. Her husband, Marty (Liev Schreiber), is forced to spend most of his time away from the family at work. As always, the absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named...
...Nicole M. Christoff '00, a native of Indiana, is currently a government concentrator living in Lowell House. She serves as co-president of Women in Economics and Government. Her tattoo, a symbol of Alexander the Great, is a tribute to her Macedonian ancestry...
Bovan said the target symbol has great significance...
...young Chinese man who faced down a long row of tanks near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, personifies man's struggle for freedom in a direct and personal way. This unknown rebel is a symbol of the world's desire for freedom. Margret Hofmann Austin, Texas...
...story might have ended there, except for two things. First, Motichka, who specialized in nude self-portraits, continued to take them; she became a symbol of the disfiguring effects of breast surgery, and a photo of her scarred chest wound up on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Second, it turned out that the surgery she so vividly publicized may not have been necessary. Her tumor, she believes, could have been handled by a much simpler procedure that would have left her breast intact. Late last month a New York jury agreed, awarding Motichka $2.2 million...