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Initially, there were grand plans for the euro to replace the dollar as the currency of choice in international trade. That never developed, and now the euro is on a prolonged descent that all but assures it will remain second fiddle to the buck. Why? To stretch an Olympic metaphor, the gold-medal U.S. economy has been sticking the landing for years, while Europe's economy, like Khorkina, has at times stumbled to the mat. The U.S.'s stability has attracted foreign investment at a brisk pace, tending to bolster the dollar...
...Guston himself provided a fascinating metaphor for his mid-career transformation: "I felt like an explorer who almost got to the top of Mt. Everest and somehow stopped just short and remembered and thought, 'Well, perhaps, maybe I forgot some gear,' you know, 'I forgot some equipment.' I took some side paths that looked exciting, full of possibilities. What equipment did I lack? It was a stronger contact with the thickness of things." But abandoning the summit of Mt. Everest in search of new equipment proved a bold move indeed. Completely renouncing non-figurative art at a time when...
...lover several months before. The film follows Charlie through the bleak New York streets which surround his home, cleverly setting the action on the night when clocks are turned back an hour for Daylight Savings time. It's a storytelling trick that will grow into a powerful metaphor as the film progresses, intensifying the conflict between Charlie's grief and his anger at his loss...
Problem is, recognizable though platform diving is, it still isn't football. And Olympic basketball, while it is basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used...
Well, our prurient, inappropriate concern did add a buzz to an overlong buffet of stardust memories. Smith dishes--remembering, for instance, a farcical night dropping acid with actress Holland Taylor. But she does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred...