Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lengthy conversations unfold about their various relationships, opera and especially the soprano Maria Callas. The title refers to an elusive 1958 bootleg recording of Callas singing Verdi's La Traviata. Throughout the play, the characters invoke this hard-to-find record as a symbol of the unobtainable--true love, lasting happiness, freedom from anxiety in the age of AIDS...
...obviously -- it's the office and the symbol of the organization that he represents. I consider them to be responsible for the destruction of entire races of people and the subsequent existence of domestic and child abuse in every country they went into...
...there wasn't. I did it as a symbol of my rejection of what they are teaching people and of my belief that their influence in the world must be torn apart. I accept that tearing the picture can be viewed as a negative attitude, but one has to do what one can do. If I hadn't torn the picture, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Now people will listen to what I'm saying and let me explain what I'm talking about...
...further in September when a combination of largely uncontrollable forces -- the troubled German economy, aggressive & foreign-exchange dealers -- brought on a currency crisis that forced the pound down to the lowest level allowed by the exchange-rate mechanism, which linked sterling with other European currencies and served as a symbol of British commitment to European union. Major passionately insisted that Britain must keep the pound in the system at all costs. But after the government spent millions of pounds and drastically raised interest rates, the effort failed: Major had to suspend participation in the exchange-rate system, and the pound...
...said, 'I'm Jesse Hubbard. I'm here for my man.'...They were all these high-up mucky-mucks. I'm a nobody. They couldn't believe that someone would let me get in there. They didn't care about the debate. It was just a status-symbol thing," he says...