Word: symbols
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rumor: Giuliani enjoys wearing dresses, platinum blond wigs and high heels. Fact: The mayor does not "enjoy" appearing in drag. He dons female apparel whenever possible only because it is his obligation, as chief representative and symbol of a metropolis whose economy depends greatly on the entertainment industry, to entertain. To refuse to do so would be uncivil, indeed downright rude...
...another cigarette. "Obviously, it's super-superexciting to play opposite Harrison Ford, but frankly, it wasn't as exciting as finding the love of my life." Dressed in old brown corduroys and a skimpy T shirt, Heche looks the very picture of elfin delicacy, hardly the "biker chick" symbol for gay rights that she figures her detractors expect. Having started in show biz at age 12, she marvels that anyone would question her acting ability now--and for a fairly simple role in which she plays an uptight New York editor who falls for Ford's pilot and general layabout...
Graham came decisively into her own in the '40s, turning out in rapid succession the decade-long series of angst-ridden dance dramas--enacted on symbol-strewn sets designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and accompanied by scores commissioned from such noted composers as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber--on which her reputation now chiefly rests. Cave of the Heart (1946), one of her many modern recastings of ancient Greek myth, contains a horrific solo in which the hate-crazed Medea gobbles her own entrails--perhaps Graham's most sensational coup de theatre and one recalled with nightmarish clarity...
...some it is a simple piece of paper with a seal and a few signatures. To others it is a tangible symbol, the culmination of four years of coursework, signifying an eternal connection to the institution of higher learning...
...that signature needs to be there, not only because I got my education from Radcliffe, but as a symbol of all that I didn't get at Harvard," she says...