Word: metaphor
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...center to the culture. We have this opulent, relatively well-educated culture, and yet we see a great city like New York deterioriate. We see people lose themselves in drugs because they don't deal with their sense of spiritual emptiness. I intend Manhattan to be a metaphor for everything wrong with our culture." He says that he and Brickman in their original script intended to make a direct comment on everything that they loathe about modern chemical, mechanized and ideological distractions. Though a few of these were lost in the final cut, it is hard to miss Allen...
...beautiful woman. But people who are huge talents are frequently miserable human beings. In terms of human attributes, what really counts is courage. There's a speech I had to cut out of Manhattan and plan to get into the next film, where my character says that the metaphor for life is a concentration camp. I do believe that. The real question in life is how one copes in that crisis. I just hope I'm never tested, because I'm very pessimistic about how I would respond. I worry that I tend to moralize, as opposed to being moral...
Friel uses faith healing as a resonant metaphor of the artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts and sometimes destroys its own. Friel leaves the subject as murky as he found it, but his actors are luminous. Returning to Broadway after 32 years, Mason is a necromancer at his craft. His real-life wife, Clarissa Kaye, seems like a Mother Courage on loan, and Donnelly is a mischievous imp dressed in the motley philosophy of show biz. Faith healers...
...background of the recent changes there is a vicious metaphor at work according to which a university is like a business: this makes the administration the management, the faculty the employees and the students the customers. The metaphor...elevates the administration from their rightful place as servants and protectors of the faculty to the position of their judges and overseers...
...THIS metaphor is at work in this University. The Corporation has gone beyond merely protecting Harvard from financial imprudence. President Bok generously states in his first letter that his opinions "are not the official views of the University." His statement is true. Bok may speak as an individual trying "to think through and resolve a difficult and important set of problems," but he acts as the head of the Corporation. He has effectively set himself up as the arbiter of moral truth for the University on this issue...