Word: symbolization
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...P.L.O. is "dreaming" on that point. Said one State Department official: "It would be hard as hell to get Israel to move back that far because they don't trust the P.L.O. to go." The P.L.O. still wants to leave behind in Lebanon a political and military symbol of its former power. Israel is adamantly opposed to that. Moreover, the proposals being considered last week apply only to P.L.O. forces in Beirut. They do not cover P.L.O., Syrian or Israeli forces elsewhere in Lebanon, a source of great concern to the Lebanese government...
...shade of palm groves, troops are setting up encampments. As tanks are unloaded, soldiers in the turrets pull goggles down over their eyes to keep out the clouds of dust. Like umbrellas opening, tents acquire taut shapes; in their midst, a white flag with a red crescent, the symbol of a hospital, is raised. Binoculars to his eyes, a brigadier looks out toward the horizon, where he hears bursts of artillery. His or theirs? "Ours," he replies, pointing in the direction of the enemy lines. "They are getting ready to attack again. You can smell battle...
...book, one of Garp's sons mistakes a warning about an undertow where he goes swimming and comes to believe that a giant frog, an "undertoad," menaces him. It becomes a symbol for all the hidden dangers of modern life. The film never locates its undertoad and thus never confronts the true subject of the book. It is all just body surfing on a placid pond. -By Richard Schickel
Patrick Murphy is the very model of the modern major police official. And that may be the trouble. As the former police boss in New York, Detroit, Washington and Syracuse, N.Y., and now as president of the small but influential Police Foundation, he has become a symbol of many of the changes in police forces during recent decades. Some departments have adopted such reforms as the hiring and promotion of blacks and women and the use of social science techniques. On the other side, more traditional chiefs, particularly in small towns, have preferred to stay with tried and true ways...
...Nicholson of the New York City exhibition firm of Ramirez and Woods, "personalizes" information. Determined to avoid an intimidating computer keyboard, he employed a "user-friendly," touch-sensitive screen. Pressure on the screen tells the computer to retrieve the information stored on the videodisc corresponding to the word or symbol touched. Although the computer makes the system truly responsive, what makes its applications so exciting is the versatility of the videodisc. And you thought the disc was the Edsel of video technology...