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...downhill portion and then messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge to scoring five touchdowns in the fourth quarter, or hitting two grand slams in a massive ninth-inning rally. Sportswriters enjoy hyperbole only slightly less than metaphor, but the point was made...
Most of the tapestries show upward movement as a metaphor for lightness and hope, especially in “I Wish to Be Like the Wind,” where a face and reaching hands burst out of an upward rising spiral. This tapestry is set to a poem which reads as a direct response to the disillusionment of the Shining Path years...
...legend of the spider-storyteller to depict the major events of Peruvian history as symbols in a web. In this tapestry the correlation between the story and the symbol is clear and beautifully executed—but not as compelling as when Sulca uses symbols to build a metaphor. Such is the case in “For a Better World,” based on the artist’s own poem, which locates womanhood somewhere between the Christian concept of Eve, and the Andean ideal of a woman whose spirit comes from the mountain...
...Before and After (1961), nose reshaping. The canvas shows how American society is caught between innovation and conformity, says De Salvo: "You see one nose and then you see this very refined, curt nose that has a kind of anonymous quality. He uses one image as a metaphor for an entire culture." Warhol had his own conk altered a few years earlier on his journey from a Czechoslovak immigrant background in Pittsburgh to fashionable circles in New York...
Crossroads, clearly a timeless tale of youthful rebellion and a brilliant metaphor for the trajectory of our lives, concerns three childhood friends in Georgia who have followed different paths since being in high school. Kit (Zoe Saldana) took the tempting cheerleading, Mimi (Taryn Manning) is naturally the opposite (big loser) and Lucy (Britney Spears) is the straight-A valedictorian with exorbitantly large breasts. Obviously, these restless young ladies need a cross-country road trip for a dose of self-discovery to ease that angst. Think Thelma & Louise plus Friend and Hot Guy set to “Not a Girl?...