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Releasing the film under both its French and English titles is perhaps a ploy to lure American moviegoers who would like to speak French but don't. But it also preserves the metaphor in the title: "meduses" which means jellyfish in French is also the man-killing monster of Greek mythology...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: L'Annee de Meduses | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

...dead ending for slower ones, the Paideia presents the same material to all students, conveyed through Socratic talk between teachers and pupils. It is Adler's conviction that every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon containers, his approach holds that even for slow learners half a pint of Plato is better than half a pint of engine repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Great Aristotelian | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Aldredge) across the street before the light changes conveys all that is needed. Trying to squeeze his car into a tight parking space, Tommy huffs mightily as he turns the steering wheel back and forth while his front-seat companion, the indomitable Tamkin, rattles on: a perfect visual metaphor for Tommy's plight. The makers of Seize the Day did not settle for translating words to screen; somebody gave this one some thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Down And Out in Manhattan | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Study of Metaphor and Transformation: An Artist's Creation of a Physical and Symbolic Place of Study--Clara Wainwright. Gilman Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Percy extends the metaphor to man. We all drink the water. We're all zonked out on our separate somas. But Percy's kiddie-porn portrait shocks without edifying. The metaphor, a valid one, is too sensationally packaged. Why stoop to conquer? Why exploit to elevate? Percy's better than this...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Thanatos Is Comin' to Town | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

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