Word: metaphor
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...soul track, Another Horsedreamer's Blues, draws from a surprising source for musical inspiration: the Sam Shepard play Geography of a Horse Dreamer. In the song, a little girl with the ability to foresee horse-race winners in her dreams is manipulated and used by those around her--a metaphor for the use and abuse of artistic talent...
...their "opponents." Peninsula, on the other hand, explains that its agenda is "in keeping with the time-honored practice of making a list and checking it twice in order to ensure when the coup comes around the firing squad knows who's been naughty or nice." A fine metaphor, really, for Peninsula's subsequent attacks on Jews, intellectuals, blacks, homosexuals and the Church. Sound like any other intolerant regime in recent memory...
Grunwald continues: "The Gap...makes us blend into a crowd of casual, comfortable clothing." In a metaphor that is almost poetic, Grun-wald explains: With the pocket t-shirts and cotton turtlenecks grouped into small, medium, large and extra large, "the Gap fits everybody. It provides the sartorial equivalent of the Big Tent, welcoming America's diverse multitude of grossly misshapen bodies into the comforting embrace of its loose fitting" sweaters...
...body to expel a paroxysm of sexual desire while sucking on an orange. As juice runs from his mouth, working its way down his body, and dropping lusciously to the floor through his penis, Miller's queer body and the orange tree become linked in a delicious visual metaphor. The tree's fruit, its juice, and its potential for giving and receiving pleasure, suddenly become Miller...
...fellows will spend a year at Radcliffe developing research projects on a variety of different topics, from an examination of water as a metaphor for social change to an exploration of the three-dimenisional world of proteins...