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Something pulled her over; and something gave in; and all three pairs of wings began to beat [Wiley has proposed this metaphor earlier in the proceedings]: she was the center and the source and the victim of a storm of wing beats; we were at the top of the world; the huge bird of God's body in us hovered; the great miracle pounded on her back, pounded around us; she was straining and agonized and distraught, estranged within this corporeal-incorporeal thing, this angelic other avatar, this other substance of herself...
...were born and I was born. If we die when this movie is finished it won't matter, because this is it." Nastassia seems unbothered that the resulting film looks like a Bloomingdale's window of Terrorist Chic, and that the story line functions as a metaphor for her dangerous need to be used by directors whose eccentricity overwhelms their artistry. Exposed is "a film and an experience I truly love," she says. Indeed, she believed so strongly in it that she paid, out of her $500,000 salary, $75,000 to reinsert four scenes that had been cut. That...
...title Second Serve indicates her general confusion the metaphor is inaccurate. In tennis, a second serve is delivered after the stronger first serve has failed. The weaker serve is employed only after the other does not work, there is a clear separation. For Richards, however, no clear dichotomy between her first and second lives actually exists. In his young for motive years, "The best thing that had ever happened to me was being dressed like a woman." A few years later: "Though not fully awakened, [Raskind's] heterosexuality was beginning to emerge. He seemed to have arrived at the climax...
Ararta is an elegant construct, a story of form and connections about forms and connections. It is a story whinin a story within a story Rather than the easy metaphor--a series of Russian dolls which unscrew to reveal yet another doll inside-an elegant computer program with multiple subroutines comes closer to characterizing the work...
...coming, like a wave out at sea," Dan Rather says, a new attack on the "media elite." Then, with a carefree disregard for consistency of metaphor, he describes such criticism as "the old salami in a new package." Journalists like Rather are always being asked by unsympathetic critics, "Who elected you?" The most plausible answer is that journalists are first appointed by their employers, then get confirmed by the public insofar as they and their employers are regarded as accurate, fair and trustworthy. As the network with the most watched news program on TV, CBS can consider itself elected under...