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...never thought of that" (a remarkable reaction from a man who seems to have thought of more than anyone else) and goes on to speculate on why verse is somehow sadder than a prose treatment of the same subject, and on what the opposite of a labyrinth (Borges' central metaphor) is. "Borges and Us" is a marked improvement over the days when Island editors asked Mary Poppins' creator, in issue number two, "First of all, Miss Travers, where were you born...
...novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative influence upon anyone...
Strip See-Throughs. Lanai deals with the would-be starlets of Hollywood, but the artist builds it around an upside-down Buick to suggest both physical extravagance and social mobility. His metaphor is also central to the F-111, the 85-ft.-long anatomy of the costly, controversial fighter-bomber, which will go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum next month. He used the F111 to symbolize, among other things, his indignation at the Kennedy assassination, which he sees as the supreme example of "horrible extravagance...
...family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur Mills, and comforted by a third, none other than his Vice President. Artist Levine, working with the editors, first thought of showing L.B.J. as a burdened Job, but he ultimately chose Shakespeare's troubled King as the best metaphor for a man beset with problems-many of which come from within his own party. He did not think in terms of a literal analogy with Lear and his troublesome offspring, but preferred the King partly because "I'm a father myself...
...High, six teachers asked out even before he arrived. Since then, the new headmaster has got rid of 23 more. "You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor. "A good school needs administration, perspicacity and guts...