Word: symbolisme
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I fear over-intellectualizing a Hollywood project that likely spent far more time and money on fight scenes than philosophical inquiry, but Constantine ups the ante in the messianic-action genre by grotesquely overloading the film with hijacked symbolism and lexicon from established religion. In a society that is obsessed...
Peter Carey?author of the novel Oscar and Lucinda, two-time winner of the Booker Prize, all-around intelligent bloke?has lots of thoughtful ideas about modern Japanese culture, almost all of which, he comes to discover, are wrong. He's wrong about the symbolism of his son's favorite...
There is a distinction between symbolism and substance--Zora Neale Hurston once said, "All my skinfolk ain't my kinfolk." But whether one likes or loathes the people Bush has chosen to be part of his Administration, he is reaching out.
Indeed, the interesting thing about the past month of post-election soul-searching is that the most salient cleavage is proving to be less left v. right than reform v. status quo. This fissure was of course prefigured by the Dean campaign, which was always less about pushing an ideological...
HRL President Catherine C. Roche ’06 stressed the symbolism of the gesture, despite the small size of the refund. “I don’t feel that people should have to spend their hard earned money on something that they oppose,” she...