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Among emblems of old age, a woman's curved spine is one of the most powerful and haunting, at once both metaphor and augury. It conjures up the crush of life's passage. More terrible, it often heralds life's end. For the humped back is often the most visible sign of osteoporosis, a progressive disease that leaves bones thin and brittle. Even so simple a motion as walking or sitting can collapse vertebrae and fracture wrists and hips. Those who suffer such breaks rarely recover their mobility. Many wind up in nursing homes. One- quarter die within six months...
Instead I walked over to the table for The Crimson and began a four-year journey in photojournalism. Photography is the ultimate metaphor for how I felt about the whole political arena. It was easy and enjoyable to capture and observe politics, but by placing a lens between myself and the debate I could avoid becoming involved...
...metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor—that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become the only black woman to write a number one country song, and she would be nominated for a Grammy Award. She examined lynching...
...college. “He’s very smart, very focused,” she says. “The enormous success that he’s had in Hollywood is no surprise to anyone who knew him in college.” ‘A METAPHOR ABOUT FAITH’Cuse says that one of the things that attracted him to “Lost” was that it dealt with issues and worked on a level that most TV shows try to avoid.“The debates about faith versus reason that...
...This manifests itself throughout Fun Home, which ranks as one of the most self-consciously bookish graphical works yet published. Many of the chapters use a canonical literary work as a central metaphor and reference point. Often as tangentially associated with homosexuality as her father, the works cited include The Greek Myths, Camus's The Death of Sisyphus, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, The Great Gatsby and eventually back to the Greek myths by way of James Joyce's Ulysses. The "Ulysses" chapter takes place near the end of Fun Home, when Bechdel must read...