Word: symbolization
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...commission member above the raucous uproar at the meeting. Shouted Radical Jan Rolicz, who is challenging Walesa's current efforts to hold back the organization he helped to found: "The time has come to think about a personnel change in the union, even though Walesa is still a symbol of unity." Jozef Dudek, another radical from southern Poland, declared that sending Walesa to the summit talk was tantamount to "letting a single individual represent 10 million people." At that remark, Walesa snapped back. Said he: "I will represent 10 million members, Jaruzelski will represent the government, and Primate Glemp...
...than ever capable of playing games with the audience, using his softened image for deceptive purposes. Until he whispers his last devastating line in Ragtime, the audience is likely to think of Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo as an agreeable authority figure, when he is actually the picture's symbol of evil genius...
...road. This relic of the B-movie studio star has grown to a force of major proportion in the industry, becoming perhaps the only hero for disaffected youth. The years of quickies, westerns, acid, and road movies paid off, creating a unique, vibrant, tenacious, intelligent, self-promoting, humanistic, aloof symbol of the modern age. In his best roles, Nicholson represents order amid chaos. Not in a stilted, dreary, macho way, but in an active, tongue-in-cheek yet soul-wrenching, personally moral way. All those years of hard knocks were the catalyst in his concluding what most of Hollywood...
...COMMON MAN has become the symbol of our age, the extraordinary and the passionate something to be shunned, questioned, doubted. We like Ordinary People-Mary Tyler Moores and Donald Sutherlands-whom we can relate to ourselves...
...light, reflection, time of day, angle of sight. Atget knew, as the impressionists knew, that the amount of reality any object can disclose is inexhaustible. But his work never succumbed to impressionist softness or generalization. Its tone is one of thoughtful clarity. The old root is not a symbol of old age; it is just wood, under light, put through a lens, chemically fixed. But the action of seeing it aright gathers so much meaning that Atget's photography can reasonably be called a moral act. As MOMA'S curator of photography, John Szarkowski, remarks in his admirable...