Word: metaphor
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...know what they do well’), and they don’t beat around the bush. At some point in the writing process for their current single, someone must have said, “Hey, we’re dark, yet upbeat. What’s a metaphor for death that sounds sort of upbeat? ‘The Black Parade’? I like it. Let’s go get lunch.” The video for said single is the result of a similarly straightforward process, with the added philosophy...
...whatever religion they follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world. And that leaves out of the discussion all the time they need to read what they care to read, see what they need to see at the movies and on television - to experience the materials that have at least the possibility of nurturing their...
...splitting all-night techno rave. "It was an experiment, the first time we've done this," says Andrus Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland...
...show that marked the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris early this year before moving to Tate Modern in London. "Doors are something that define territory, right?" says Huyghe of his metaphor. "But as the doors are moving, and there are no walls, then what is inside and what is outside becomes very blurry." Huyghe (pronounced, roughly, wheeg) revels in such border bashing. His work in photography, film, music, sculpture, architecture, puppetry, graphics and "events" defies the usual boundaries between the disciplines. And it probes other frontiers: contemporary ones like copyright and community, eternal...
...medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Nuclear capacity is like a knife," he told me. "It can be used in a standard operation, say a C-section for you. Or it can be used to kill someone...