Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the happy throng at Red Square--billed as "The Largest Paved Enclosure East of the Balkans"? As troop carriers and missile launchers gaily paraded by, clowns threw buckets of confetti at the crowd, and Misha the bear stooped to say hello to youngsters. "I am Misha, the friendly symbol of the Soviet peoples," the bear would announce in Russian. "I welcome all strangers in peace. But if you come with aggressive intentions your blood will water the land of Mother Russia!" Young and old alike applauded in delight...
...Dudes," he would say, sporting a tye-dyed shirt and a peace symbol draped around his neck, "it is really awesome that you came here to worship with us today. I've been thinking it over and have decided to totally return all of the money that I've been taking over the years, because, like, we're all one in the beautiful scheme of things and I really don't need money to be happy. Intense, dudes. Be well, I'll catch you later...
When Americans travel abroad, they take with them a cherished link with their homeland: their passport. Soon, however, even that symbol of citizenship will not be all-American. The Government Printing Office disclosed last week that when it sought bids for a new machine to produce passports, only two firms responded. One was Japanese, the other West German. The winner: Uno Seisakusho Co. Ltd., whose $1 million machine will begin churning out up to 4,200 passports an hour in Washington this week. Yoi goryoko o. Or, as an American might say, "Have a nice trip...
...because of the effusive praise the critics ladled onto what he felt was a pretentiously obscure and hateful play. But Durang let his perhaps jealous anger get away from him, and so occasionally the satire sinks to the level of characters shouting at the audience, "See! This is a symbol! It's supposed to mean something!" The audience survives only because Durang finds a way once again to insert more mini-parodies, one of which, a version of Pygmalion as directed by Robert Wilson, finally reaches the level of invention we had hoped for all night. But it will...
...book is named after an Italian-born conductor, and it brings a staggering amount of research to bear on the career of Arturo Toscanini, the classical music cult figure who, after his adoption by America, became a symbol of the supposed parity between American and European culture...