Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic question was whether the Federal Government would act to prevent default-and if so, how and when. The question involved many factors: the way the rest of the country feels about New York; its reputation as the very symbol of lavish welfare spending; excessive expectations and inept management. Much of the country believes that New York is simply asking hard-working Americans hundreds of miles away to go bail for the city's profligacy. Many New Yorkers in turn believe that much of their trouble has been imposed on them by the country, through welfare legislation and Great Society...
...National Symbol. As for his own future, "The Khmer Rouge invited me to establish myself, my wife and my children in the royal palace, our Buckingham Palace. Like Queen Elizabeth, I am the symbol of the nation. I am a head of state with a new style. The responsibility for government is in the TED THAI hands of the Khmer Rouge who deserve it because they fought and won and I do not want to compete with them...
Shirley Knight, as the failed sex symbol, is favored with Patrick's most successful character, her speeches filled with wit and wordplay. Knight speaks rhythmically, very sexually, building up to a climax and descending with a crash. Clive Donner also directs well, maintaining control during the more histrionic moments. Under his direction, physical movements augment the script and rescue the show from tedium...
...major Federal aid to the cities is not now the issue, and to let Ford make it so is to precipitate New York's collapse--and that of other cities. Ford uses New York as a symbol, and obscures what it really is--eight million people. Congress has been accepting Ford's picture of the crisis, and is only beginning to understand that it won't be "bailing the city out" and sanctioning fiscal irresponsibility if it gives New York time to avert default. But while Congress considers action, New York approaches disaster...
...Airplane. During World War II, Hirohito was regarded by Americans as the hated symbol of his country, an embodiment of treachery and aggression, but that enmity has long since faded into a kind of bemused nostalgia...