Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Paul '00, "The concept of debutante balls seems increasingly superficial and without substance. At their best these parties can be a fun get-together; however, instead of introducing women to society, they seem to be a status symbol. Having a debutante ball seems to assure your place in the social hierarchy." At least they are fun parties, full of champagne, many black-tied escorts and old social matriarchs who--as former debs--seem to arbitrate the process...
...simple but effective set, too, works toward making concrete the unifying themes of the text: the village's washer-women are provided with a river, via the simple expedient of a roll of blue fabric, making visible the torrent of water that infiltrates areas of the play as a symbol of fertility and female power. Inside Yerma's house, the furniture is sparse--a rocking chair, a table, jugs for water--and the dominating element is the starkest one of all: a doorway, erected against the air, marking the boundary between the house to which Yerma is expected to keep...
...relationships in the restess, promiscuous 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Alen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no redemption. The ice storm, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...substance of truth, which is what this University stands for and what it teaches. But it teaches this truth, veritas, only by teaching it in parts. It is to the credit of the University that President Rudenstine is able to assign Isaiah Berlin to incoming students as a symbol of a free and open school, of the limits and dangers of thought and of the value of our humanity to concepts of truth. Isaiah Berlin lives on in this message...
...with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but distrurbingly bleak surburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...