Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was David Storey's second play, written before he had fully found and measured his silences. Only Pinter can make the unspoken as eloquent as Storey, can round an intimation into a metaphor, a nuance into a theme. Storey's plays make strange music, strike notes that reverberate just on the edge of consciousness...
Matthews figures he would not last long as DSI at some Big Ten School. He does not see undergraduate sports as sacred battle, and in that sense he is a metaphor, of sorts, for the Harvard community, which rarely whips itself into a frenzy about any "big game." Matthews does not publish brochures touting his prospective All-Americans, as some schools do to garner votes for their stars in post-season honors races ("I'd be fired if I did!" he says), and he does not sit in on interviews with Harvard players to gently steer the conversation away from...
...quest for universality in music, Bernstein begins with monogenesis, the idea that all language evolved from a common origin. As a metaphor, monogenesis lies behind the Biblical Tower of Babel myth, and as a general principle it lies behind a century of serious philology, but it is not an idea with any scientific foundation--linguists believe the dozen or so major language families to be unrelated. Still, it reminds Bernstein of a discovery he made when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn...
...Godfather, Part II is a worthy successor to its predecessor. Francis Coppola has made a richly detailed, intelligent film that uses overorganized crime as a metaphor to comment on the coldness and corruption of an overorganized modern world. -Richard Schickel...
Several weeks' work was compressed into a few days. Coppola now confesses himself "bored to death with gangsters," but adds that "right under the surface of this film is a loose metaphor for America itself. Like Michael, we all have blood on our hands." The director also stoutly maintains that Godfather II marks his last game of sudden death...