Word: symbolized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soldier who had much in common with the rough, parochial peasant comrades who forged the revolution. By contrast, Chou was silkenly urbane, almost a throwback to the old Mandarin bureaucrats of imperial China. His courtly manners and experience in the ways of the world made him, outside China, a symbol of Oriental patience and guile. U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger was not the only Western diplomat who, after a treasured cup of tea with Chou in Peking's Great Hall of the People, came away convinced that China's Premier was "one of the most intelligent men I've ever...
...professes confidence that the carbon-copy symbols will cause no confusion. Officials of NETV-whose program Anyone for Tennyson? is being broadcast on public TV nationwide-doubt that. Says Program Manager Ron Hull: "If you see that in New York, you're going to say, 'Those Nebraska hicks stole NBC's symbol.' And that's not true." Lawyers for both networks are pondering whether NETV can claim prior use and force NBC to dust off the peacock...
...road has not. Supersized mag wheels on the back axle make the cars look as if they are always pointed downhill, and garter belts hang from rear-view mirrors as a sign of sexual conquest. Owning and maintaining a car at an early age is a special status symbol around Detroit. It provides exitement and an identity for students whose careers are already a thing of the past when they enter high school...
...storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...
...that Rocky means business too. Round after fifteen rounds, Rocky stays up, going for the champ's weakened right side. "He doesn't know it's a show; he thinks it's a goddamn fight," Creed's trainer panics. But it is precisely because the championship has become the symbol of Rocky's struggle to show that he can "go the distance" against all those anti-heroes who give in that this powerful, realistically photographed last scene makes this fight more than a fight...