Word: metaphor
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...second act is not as good, not as quick or as funny, tacked on as if Stoppard also needed to catch his breath. For one thing, he finds himself caught in his extended metaphor on The Importance of Being Ernest. For another, the second act is more concerned with Lenin, ably portrayed by Jack Bittner. But the speeches he gives are Lenin's own, and political bombast is only amusing in a very bourgeois sense. The act moves to conclusion inexorably picking up speed, and unifying it with the first act is Wood's tremendous performance as Carr. Finally...
...safeguards against extravagant profits-possibly a "windfall profits tax" on energy companies that are allowed to raise prices. Finally, it seems sure that the program will not relax tough environmental controls on energy use. David Freeman, 51, Schlesinger's senior aide, puts the point in a gloriously mixed metaphor: "We start out with the cornerstone of our energy policy cut from environmental cloth...
...persona and into another. The motifs from the first section continue--rounds of stamping and shuffling in place of musical rhythm, and repetitive actions with time-measures of their own. Yet in the second half these movements take on more incisive implications, an edge of irony. Here gesture approaches metaphor while retaining its interest as abstract action...
...again. Speaking to a group of Young Conservatives, he let loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance where to render assistance and where to attack...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form...