Word: symbolics
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...show's star is a corpse: John Bradshaw, head of the court that sentenced Charles I to death, is exhumed, drawn and quartered as the play begins, a symbol of ravaged nationhood. So Davis must settle for the part of his wife, Susan, who spends the play scavenging for her husband's remains. Despite great slabs of satire on the nature of monarchy, banking and literature, Victory turns on her journey - and what a journey it turns out to be. "Any fool can rob his enemy," she says, caught stealing from a band of fellow Puritans. "Where's the victory...
...Currier’s symbol is the tree, so its only natural that we should have the cup,” he said. “Fear the tree...
...that the library is designed to accommodate whatever new technologies and purposes it may have to serve in the future. And Koolhaas is somebody who understands all too well the power of things you can't predict. The library, which opens officially next month, is not just a new symbol for the city. It's a personal vindication for the architect, an announcement that, at age 59, he is thriving in the American phase of his career after a period in which several major U.S. projects abruptly fell through and his views on the future of building got notably sour...
...authority is unquestioned, his popularity overwhelming. Yet Russia's future under his stewardship is hazy. Four years ago, Putin's election was greeted as a symbol of renewal. Now Putin is increasingly seen, especially outside Russia, as personifying a restoration of the Soviet mentality, if not its menace...
...believe that you can be President, so to speak, and you find out that you can't--that you have mistaken the kind of idealized dream for reality--you're likely to get angry," he says. "And maybe likely to want to kill a symbol...