Word: metaphor
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First, reduce the growth of Government spending on consumption-oriented programs, which are using up so much capital. In Abboud's metaphor, "the Government is like, the big elephant coming to the pond, drinking all the water, leaving the gazelles with nothing...
...gallery: those mountains and seas will not fit, and Byron's horses are less tractable than Kadishman's sheep or Paradise's one-shot bull. Consequently, the best things in the Biennale were the displays which allowed the galleries to work as containers for visual metaphor rather than cages for a withered reality...
...however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best of them possess the unfolding completeness of dance. Her work, in fact, is an ambitious metaphor illustrating the continuity between intelligence and sensation, between mind and body, between body and the world it inhabits. Because these continuities are not everyone's property (and never have been), one might see Mary Frank as a kind of archaic fabulizer, spinning myths about a lost Arcadia of the senses...
...quick-profit building trade. His sculptures have always been exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives the work an indelible presence. It is quality as metaphor, proclaiming that art, before it says anything else, is a statement of the need to make something really well...
...main difficulties with Maude Pratt is that she is more convincing as a metaphor than as a character. She is full of biting, often cranky opinions about fame and the effects of patronage on artists. This contrasts with her humid, romantic maunderings on art and incest. It is almost as if Author Theroux were suggesting that Maude's lust for her brother was indistinguishable from her aloof and aristocratic aesthetic...