Word: metaphor
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...Rats, for example, takes us to an oversized nursery in a Harlem tenement. Jebbie, "a fat Harlem rat," sits counting his money amidst a six-foot-high crib and ten-foot baby chair. It is quite possible that a metaphor of a man as a rat in the nursery of the universe was implied, but Horovitz did not choose to develop the play in that direction. Bobby is a hung-up Greenwich, Connecticut rat. Jebbie exclaims, "I gotta tell you kid, I'm hip to your problems (Greenwich and all that) because I get calls from two-hundred little madras...
...moment that the collision occurs. He accuses and reviles our bourgeois hero, generating a crowd and a cop, who tries to open the car trunk in which the hero has hidden a corpse. While this threat of exposure is specific, the situation is more significant as a direct metaphor for the hero's emotional state. People surround him pointing and shouting; the possibility of escape decreases with every second. In an earlier Chabrol the metaphor would first have been amusingly demented, and only on second thought serious and meaningful. In La Femme Infidele the balance has shifted and the incident...
...they turn to the family: man, wife, and son. Here again scenes are played less outrageously than in earlier Chabrol, so that the child who sees through the superficial amicability of his parents' relationship reacts to his intuitive insights only indirectly. His inability to finish a picture puzzle, a metaphor for the changed relationship of husband and wife, describes his position in the family as that of a passive being subjected to the flaws in that relationship. He cries and accuses his father of hiding the missing piece, thereby provoking his nervous mother into upsetting the puzzle. He turns...
...Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and elder statesman of the birth-control movement, tried to turn the tables with a medical metaphor. "There have been undesirable side effects from these hearings," he said. "They have created a sense of great alarm." Guttmacher cited polls indicating that almost one-fifth of the American women who had been using the Pill had abruptly abandoned it, while as many more were thinking of doing...
...digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except an orange and the nutrients it contains. It is its own metaphor...