Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Tamino and Pamina embrace at the end, Bergman has the magic flute fly from Tamino's hand into Sarastro's, a lovely metaphor of universal regeneration, both of life...
...whole point of Shylock's Judaism is that only the old dispensation, the Mosaic law of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is incompatible with mercy. The coming of Christ means that mercy becomes law. In the language of the plays central metaphor--which appears to Shylock as a cheap trick but to Christians as God's grace--mercy and justice are as inseparable as flesh and blood...
...gave Beverly Sills the bird. In Barber, Sills portrayed the young and lovely Rosina, who is being kept a virtual prisoner by her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Caldwell first had the notion that Rosina's room should be a bird cage, complete with swing. Then to underline the metaphor, Caldwell decided that Rosina should carry a small song bird in a miniature cage. And so, one afternoon Sills found herself in a shop on New York's Madison Avenue looking at rare music boxes...
...vision of the city as a wayward family to drive home his point. "Responsibility for New York City's financial problems," he said, "is being left on the front doorstep of the federal government--unwanted and abandoned by its real parents." Ron Nessen had used the same kind of metaphor a little earlier, when he called the city "a wayward daughter hooked on heroin...
...telling that in his answer to Ford, Beame picked up the metaphor of disease but changed its nature substantially. "The best cure for our financial ills," he said, "is to have an opportunity to recuperate under a strictly supervised regimen of reform and retrenchment." Beame's New York is sick, to be sure, but it's the kind of sickness that gets better with time and care. This disease is the sort a child would come down with, the sort any responsible parent would devote himself to curing. If the whole thing is a smokescreen, Ford's concern with...