Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of three parts of a projected trilogy, Hugo Taluncci creates one-third of what may be the cinema's quintessential allegory of fascicm. The first installment of his sweeping triumvirate of panoramas, The Boston Telephone Directory uses the alphabet as the ultimate symbol of enforced order. "A," cries Arnold Aaron, a political theorist who works night shifts at a sausage-stuffing factory to maintain contact with the people, "must come before B. When D comes before C, we face revolution!" Neither a book nor a photograph, this movie walks a thin line between cinema and film...
Thompson preaches on Sundays in the regular cassock of a high church minister, with one exception. On one side of his robe is a large embroidered peace symbol: the circle with the "chicken track" inside. For many years he has been using his Sunday sermons to preach strong antiwar messages. This, combined with his insistence on preaching involvement in other current social issues, has been an area of contention between him and some of his parishioners...
...probably better not to discuss the issues of peace around here," Green said. "That's a sore subject. We think maybe that the rector overdoes it a little. If he feels like wearing a peace symbol, that's okay. People should get involved, but it shouldn't be overdone in church...
Standing on a platform draped with white cloth to look like a boat-the campaign symbol of the Awami League -Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman delivered his last campaign speech at the little village of Dirai north of Dacca. The village is accessible only by boat or on foot (or, in the Prime Minister's case, by helicopter), but by the time Mujib arrived, 20,000 people had crowded in from as far as 25 miles away to hear the man they call Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal...
...have not been able to give you two meals a day," Mujib told them. "I have not always been able to give you one meal a day. But not a single person has died of starvation." Then, reminding his audience to vote for the symbol of the boat in the country's first national election, he asked them "to put up both your hands if you have confidence in me." A forest of hands shot up, and lusty shouts of "Jot Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) rang...