Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grief, more than 130 characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from the sadistic Dotheboys Hall and of the innumerable others who continue to suffer poverty and abuse, in Dickens' time and our own. Fans of the original will find few differences in the new staging, again by Trevor Nunn (Cats) and John Caird...
Wasn't the Statue supposed to be a gift for all Americans? It was supposed to symbolize the freedom fought for by the Thirteen Colonies, with the help of France. Somehow the symbol seems tarnished because it was sold only to those with a million or more dollars to spend...
...This particular baby will probably need both and then some, for it is a sobering symbol of the shocking rapidity at which the world's population is multiplying," said the president of the private institute, which seeks a more even balance between the wealth of different geographical areas...
Anonymous pain vs. heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...
Peter Sonnabend, the attorney representing the Harvard Shop Inc., said that Eagle Shop contacted Boston College officials before it opened to determine school policy on using the symbol and at the time, he was told the school had no set policy...