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...Part of that consistency is in the careful follow-through of visual motifs introduced in the earliest chapters. Black Hole may be the most Freudian graphic novel you will every read. Dreams and symbols play a major role the development of character and theme. Vaginal-like openings appear in such forms as branches being pushed aside or a cut on someone's foot. Guns and serpents make for opposing sexual symbolism. While such imagery has been used before, Burns smartly applies them in ways unique to the medium, integrating them into the very design of the book...
...pacing and the endless reiteration that Elliot is not right for Caroline and he is The Baxter of all Baxters. For example, there’s Elliot’s mantra, “Compromise is the key to success,” Caroline’s Freudian slip when she introduces Elliot as her friend and Bradley as her fiancé, and Elliot’s hilarious if not pathetic plan to honeymoon at Yellowstone Park complete with “camping, fishing, and guided tours...
...beyond mere patriotism. George Lakoff, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been advising Democrats, suggests that voters often see their party in the style of a "nurturing parent" but, in a post--Sept. 11 world, prefer the "strict father" governance embraced by Republicans. In less Freudian terms, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says "the military and these other institutions are greatly respected." Hence the Democrats' netting a former CIA officer in Illinois and a former FBI agent in Minnesota, whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, who testified about mistakes the bureau made...
...Been There Before--the title is the last sentence of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--should seem arrogant, pretentious and convoluted. It involves dozens of characters, five or six distinct plots and more than three dozen "documents" supposedly written by Twain and his interpreters, some of them verging on Freudian exploration of the writer's guilt-ridden subconscious...
...work, the R.S.C. offers an electrifying Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...