Word: metaphor
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...face but of the soul. The Phantom is the outsider, the Steppenwolf. In many ways he captures a central irony of our times: it's the one who has the imperfect appearance who has a kind of moral perfection." The superiority of the wounded: it is a metaphor that speaks -- no, it sings -- to every loser in love or in life...
...really intrigued by muscle and he [Sondheim] was really intrigued by Fosca, so we said, 'Hey, let's just do them together.' To me muscle is a metaphor for the eighties. My generation dropped out, did drugs, became very internal, in the same way that the eighties generation became external, more concerned with the outside than the inside. Usually I write the book, but on Fosca, Steve will be writing a lot as well...
...insulting level of metaphor is sustained not only in the script but also in some of the direction. Men in large white spacesuits wander in and out during set changes, accompanied by billows of mechanical fog. These creatures are the exterminators sent by the government to ward off the plague of red spiders that is reported to be approaching the city. Later, a large red spider is lit and throbbing above carnival dancers in a comical dance scene that probably was meant to be erotic. These and other elaborate ploys, while potentially meaningful, are more likely to make you giggle...
Experts who work with the mentally ill are especially concerned about the misinformation spread by the jokes and casual use of medical terms. When TIME uses the word schizophrenic to describe internal conflict within the Republican Party, the metaphor perpetuates a misunderstanding, as does a New York Times article describing the hyena's laughlike calls as "psychotic in pitch." Schizophrenia, a brain disorder whose symptoms can include hearing voices, has nothing to do with multiple or "split" personalities. Psychotic refers to a period of severe, treatable and often terrifying disorientation...
PICK YOUR BASEBALL METAPHOR: MAJOR LEAGUE baseball owners could have benched Marge Schott, called strike three, hit her with a pitch. Instead they balked, bunted, let her off easy. Charges that the Cincinnati Reds owner used such phrases as "dumb lazy nigger" and "dirty Jews" led the owners' executive council to fine her $25,000 and give her a one-year suspension starting March 1. Schott is a millionaire, so the fine is just lunch money; if she behaves herself and attends "multicultural training programs," she can return to baseball by Nov. 1 -- more of a seventh-inning stretch than...