Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that backed up, sometimes for miles, from those gas stations that were still open. Confused and angry about the gas famine and the whole energy crisis, they groped around for someone to blame. Many politicians and other people had a target ready: the oil companies. Because it is a symbol of big oil, and its stations dot the country, one company stood to take more than its share of criticism. It is the company that once told drivers that it would put a tiger in their tanks: Exxon Corp., by far the world's biggest, richest oil giant...
...insist, however, that her most important contribution to Egyptian life has not been in building up wartime morale but in raising the peacetime stature of women. "Many changes have come to Egypt under Sadat," says one, "but Jehan is the greatest change of all." Mrs. Sadat has become the symbol of a special kind of women's lib adapted to a country where women are still generally held down. Without upsetting the traditional male role as family head, Mrs. Sadat has persistently worked for greater rights for women. Among other things, her husband recently appointed his first female Cabinet...
...Cheng-chung wrote the solo music. Like some Western works for solo instrument and orchestra, Yellow River has a program: it starts by invoking the day-to-day life on the river, ends with Mao's call to arms, and the defense of the river as a symbol of the entire country. Sophisticated Western listeners would have no trouble picking Yellow River apart, but for all its naivete, it is adroitly orchestrated and engagingly melodic. In addition, the concerto is genuinely historic-the first real specimen of China's current efforts to absorb Western music. "The fact...
Much of the movie's strength comes from the script by Tracy Keenan Wynn (Keenan's son, Ed's grandson). Miss Jane is never merely a symbol or a stereotype. Whether responding shyly to the kindness of a Union soldier, umpiring a baseball game or teasing her earnest young interviewer, she emerges as a human being full of surprising quirks and depths. John Korty, a director whose feature films (Funnyman, riverrun) have lacked emotional fire, here employs his unobtrusive and objective camera to excellent effect. Violence is seen as a constant element rather than a shocking intrusion...
Gaetano Salvemina, who Prodi called a "symbol of anti-fascism for the Italians during World War II" was the first political exile to benefit from the lectureship...