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Equivalents in other languages sometimes serve as an eighth item.
About a third of their revenues (on average) now come from the US Treasury (or its state equivalents), along with lots of strings that significantly compromise their independence.
All items are quasialigned with translation equivalents and are illustrated by example sentences--not citations--in German, which are also given in Russian translation.
"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."
For the equivalents of Broadway or Shaftesbury Avenue musicals, operettas, and comedies, try the very professional Theater am Kurfürstendamm (Kurfürstendamm 209), the Komödie (Kurfürstendamm 206), the popular Theater des Westens (Kantstraße 12), and the new Stella Musical Theater (Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1).