Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...
Around Washington, those in awe of the President's resilience say that if Bill Clinton were the Titanic, the iceberg would have gone down. On Thursday night, he lived out that metaphor when he was host to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at a formal dinner in the East Room. Like a brightly lit ocean liner on a dark sea, the White House floated above the scandal for five hours, as 240 guests clinked glasses and basked in the glow of being rich, of being powerful, of being there...
Alas, the metaphor falls apart after the 28th, when you try to apply the adage that salespeople have quoted since the onset of commercial marketing, "The customer is always right." Shoppers like to try things on at a relaxed pace and see how they feel and fit: if one item is too itchy and another too tight, we put them back on the rack and start over at the next store. But try this method while looking for classes during Harvard shopping week, and you'll end up with three Cores you've never heard...
...worry about the six-month wait until football training camps start again. Sure, it seems like this annual Death Valley--punctuated only by the oasis of the draft in April--will, like this metaphor, never...
...Polley gives a mesmerizing performance, confined to a wheelchair and unwilling to participate in Stevens' act of retribution. Her story is echoed in Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which she tells in flashback to the children she baby-sits. Browning's poem provides a recurring metaphor for the film--one not limited to the simple comparison between the children of Hamelin and those of Sam Dent...