Word: symbolisme
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CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers...
"She is a female misogynist masquerading as a political crusader," complains London Critic Alexander Walker, unfurling a battle flag that attracts many allies in America. Feminist Author Ellen Willis complains about the "perverse symbolism" in last year's Swept Away, claiming Wertmuller "panders to two classic male-supremacist lies...
Gold was the root of evil. But it was also the Apollonian ore, incorruptible and glittering, that elegantly symbolized the sempiternal radiance of God. Now that paper money and computer records have replaced the feel and ring of heavy metal, most of this symbolism is lost to us. But it...
His other books are "The Quest for Permanence: the Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats" (1959), "Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity" (1964), and "English Romantic Writers" (1967).
For this week's World section story on Syria and its pivotal position in the Middle East peace equation, TIME Correspondents Karsten Prager and William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers...