Word: symbolization
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...teen rebel, smoking cigarettes and yelling at people when she doesn't like them. She's running away from something, we don't know what, but we expect to. But we never find out. The film turns out to be not about Mona the girl, but about Mona the symbol. In her wanderings, she encounters different people representing different philosophical outlooks, and her passing through their lives changes them. Interviews with the people who have met or seen Mona are spliced in throughout the action, supposedly to prove that Mona has left her mark in people's lives...
...film is filled with heavyhanded symbols of societal oppression and the universal urge to free oneself from convention, and the director's major problem is that she cannot quite decide whether Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history and that she rarely speaks or thinks would indicate that she is a metaphor, not an individual. But occasionally, Varda strays from her reservedly elegant direction and portrays Mona in human-dilemma situations. These are often very moving in themselves. For example, just as Mona begins to develop a believable emotional...
During the almost 40 years of Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, the underground Communist Party was a symbol and center of opposition. Yet since the return of democracy to Spain in the late '70s, the Communist Party has been on the skids. It captured 23 seats in the 1979 election, but in last month's voting the party, in partnership with a leftist coalition, placed just seven members in the 350-seat lower house of the Cortes. Only Portugal's Communist Party, which never abandoned its allegiance to Moscow, seems to remain strong, consistently hovering around the 19% mark...
...Steel said last week that since oil production, real estate and other operations now account for 70% of its sales, the firm would drop the word steel from its name. After considering more than 200 possibilities, including Amcor and USSA, the company decided to call itself USX because its symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is X. In London, BL, the financially struggling government-controlled auto group formerly known as British Leyland, said it hopes to spruce up its image by renaming itself the Rover Group...
...festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron in a nostalgic recreation of dances from her movie musicals. The evening's host was another symbol of Franco-American cooperation, Gene Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris with Caron 35 years ago. Vive l'ensemble...