Word: symbolisme
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THE MOST INSISTENT presence in Marcc Bellocchio's Leap Into the Void is the director himself. He is almost tangibly there in the background of each heavily symbolic scene, shaking a first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience...
The heaviest symbolism, however, is Freudian, understandable in an opera about a sacred fraternity of chaste knights who guard the Holy Grail against a lustful, profane world. Syberberg revels in the obvious sexual metaphors of the spear and the wound that will not heal; the wound, which is supposed to...
2) A bill proposed by O'Neill last Friday to spend an additional $5.4 billion on "light public works": painting government buildings, weatherizing poor people's homes, filling potholes. The Speaker's aides insist that the money can be pumped out within 90 to 120 days. Many...
The Crusade Against Crèches City hall's Christmas symbolism is on the defensive
Happily, the occasionally indelicate symbolism cannot ruin Jean-Claude van Itallie's sensitive, arresting new translation. He has dispensed with the halting speech patterns common to translations of Russian works, and has given the characters modern idiosyncrasies and sympathies. Masha's idiotic husband, Kulygin (Richard Grusin), says bumblingly to anyone...