Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space is next year's joint U.S.-Soviet mission. In preparation for that three- to five-day, linked-up swing round the earth, Russian space technicians and cosmonauts are frequent visitors to NASA these days. Though the docking of superpower space travelers will doubtless provide a compelling symbol of peaceful cooperation between nations, space buffs are inclined to view it as a political rather than a piloting event...
Irving Wallace has always been trendy. But in his latest package he has modestly chosen to limit himself to kidnaping and rape, perhaps because the good liberal in him balks at going further. The object of Wallace's kidnaping is a Hollywood sex symbol named Sharon Fields, she of the "half-parted moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate...
Raquel Welch's surprisingly pleasant performance is a good example. As a sex symbol Welch was never very sensual because there was something awkward and cold-blooded about her. But the movies she played in never acknowledged this, and she didn't either. She didn't transmit the intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like...
President Thomaz and Portugal's rightist ultras are faced with a highly uncomfortable dilemma. The general's arrest or exile would surely shatter already shaky morale, if it did not lead to open revolt by the military. On the other hand, Spinola at liberty represents a viable symbol of an alternative to the moribund colonial policies of the regime. Already, countless thousands of Portuguese have been caught by the ringing rhetoric of his message: "A government policy can never be genuine unless it is guided by the desire of those who are governed. Those who really believe...
...film-as-film trip using films made from novels as entertaining forms of learning. All they have to do is skip the reading and use them as a kind of celluloids Monarch Notes. As for Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus refers to "the cracked looking glass of a servant" as a symbol for Irish art. It's also an appropriate symbol for Ulysses the movie--a broken reflection of an inimitable world...