Word: symbolized
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Perhaps the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences are using the presitigous awards for didactic purposes. With a former colleague in the White House, Hollywood's discerning leaders might believe they already have a reputation for social responsibility. As a symbol for inspiration, not only in its story of triumph, but as the foundation for the non-violent direct action civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., the story of Gandhi was legitimately hailed as the most socially pertinent and meaningful non-documentary motion picture to emerge this year. What better...
...been the failure of the U.S. to demonstrate that it has much influence over the policies of the Begin government. Habib was still in Jerusalem two weeks ago when the Israeli Cabinet decided to build eight new settlements, some in heavily populated Arab areas. But the most glaring symbol of American lack of clout is Lebanon, where the U.S. has struggled without result to get a withdrawal agreement satisfactory to Israel. Said a Jordanian politician: "If the U.S. cannot push the Israelis out of Lebanon, why should anyone believe it can get them out of the West Bank...
...venerable men's club, the sole setting of The Middle Ages. In a time of ethnicity, the club remains a haven for an embattled Wasp old guard. For the younger generation that departs on a picaresque journey through the chaotic world outside, the club is a beacon, a symbol of the formative power of tradition even on those who would escape its sway...
...White House's roster view demonstrate her opposition to current U.S. policy. And she mocks the notion that true progress has been made on the human rights front Indeed, she finds a language common to Washington and the Salvadoran Right that has replaced the word "change" with the word "symbol". The solutions is not to make things better, but rather to make them look better. A commission is created here, a soothing phrase handled about there, a new "policy" put forth. But it is only a game of public relations people are still murdered in the streets. As Didion writes...
...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...