Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more than Pynchon's previous novels, Gravity's Rainbow is about man the symbol-making animal desperately trying to build a protective system of meaning over his head while at the same time blind technology increases the odds that something will bash his head in. Pynchon begins, appropriately enough, in wartime London, with German V rockets (V1 and V2) raining random destruction on the city...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...
...Angeles Police Department. Although the Dickmobile is licensed by the state, the L.A. police have stopped Paige no fewer than eight times in the past year "to check it for safety." "I think the reason the police stop me," Paige says, "is because 'The Dickmobile' is a symbol more powerful than the symbol of the police...
...roadblock is a highly visible symbol of the latest of many statehood movements that have plagued India since it won independence from Britain in 1947. In recent months, separatists in the twelve coastal districts of the state of Andhra Pradesh have been demanding the right to break away from the interior region of Telangana and form a new state to be known as Andhra Desa (Andhra Land). The rebel lion has mushroomed into a popular movement with the support of an estimated 99% of the people in the area...
...remarked later that, throughout the audience, she thought of the Christian cross as the symbol under which "Jews were killed for generations." She continued: "I sat and thought to myself, here is the head of the church, sitting face to face with the Jewess from Israel, and he's listening to what I'm saying -about the Jewish people, about their home in Israel, about their rights...