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...apprentices to the nobility or by traveling companies of players performing for more geographically isolated audiences. With the development of the drawing room comedy, however, theater became the exclusive plaything of the upper classes, a form of aristocratic diversion rather than mass entertainment. It became as much a status symbol as a type of art. It should come as little surprise that almost no memorable plays were written for the 200 years of theater's self-sequesterment in the homes of the rich and influential...
Starr's odyssey from a federal appellate judge known mainly to Washington insiders to a symbol of the Clinton's impeachment crisis began in 1994, when a three-judge panel asked him to become the independent counsel charged with investigating the Whitewater land deals and other matters...
...such efforts have triggered grumbling inside the Pentagon. Some officers see the food-stamp issue as a mere symbol, a problem for which pols can come up with a "fix," declare victory and then desert the military force's deeper woes. "Food stamps are only a sound bite," says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association, which fights to improve the lot of military families. "There are a lot more pressing issues." Housing, for example: there are 500,000 old and decrepit military housing units needing repair. McCain's plan to reduce the number of troops on food stamps...
...Evidently, one would hope that Critchley does not intend to mock AIDS victims, but the larger point behind this skit is unclear. The omnipresent stag banner decorated with condoms in the sign of a deflated male symbol is clever, but nonetheless its continued presence in every scene makes it impossible to view any skit as possessing serious intention...
...petition drive is being organized by a group at the school billing itself as the Delta Initiative, based on the Greek letter delta, a symbol for change...