Word: symbolisme
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The plot is simple. Hudson, a nursing student with a guilt complex over not being there for her dying father, moves in with Mr. and Mrs. Devereaux, played by John Hurt and Gena Rowlands. In this house with many doors and no mirrors, she is handed the �...
A legitimate, perhaps indispensable part of diplomacy is symbolism. Whenever statesmen get together, it serves to remind the world, and the principals themselves, that for all the complexities of arms control and other matters of discussion, much still depends on individuals. It is not just systems that clash or coexist...
Many Japanese, however, had different ideas: fleets of sound trucks manned by Japanese right-wing activists roamed the streets, their huge loudspeakers blaring anti-Soviet slogans. The demonstrations were largely directed at the Soviet refusal to return four Japanese islands in the Kurile group, seized in 1945 and now used...
Lyonel Feininger is one of those artists whose names evoke one kind of painting, and one only. Translucent planes carving up space like glass knives, suggesting churches, ice caves or winter seas--in Feininger, the symbolism of the German romantics, especially of Caspar David Friedrich, is passed through an illustrative...
A part from his meeting with the Shultz team, Gorbachev has been keeping a low presummit profile. He made only obligatory public appearances at last week's celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, reviewing the traditional parade of Soviet military might from atop the Lenin Mausoleum in...