Word: metaphor
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...wallows in the least engaging of performer emotions, narcissism and self-pity. The plot asks you to believe that performers in a musical are selected on a kind of psychiatrist's casting couch, spilling their secret sordid pasts to the director. Yet the thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed in artifice, where a dedicated pro's highest hope is to tap and smile invisibly behind the star. Each dancer's bio may have been trite: a child...
...agreed name. Outside analysts often call it "market socialism," and some Chinese speak of creating a "commodity economy." Deng's formulation is a rather uninspiring "socialism with Chinese characteristics." But then Deng, a thoroughgoing pragmatist, has never been much for labels. His most celebrated saying is a homely metaphor to the effect that it does not matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...
...London Match. The story could have been brilliant if some ferocious editor had slashed it ruthlessly to one taut volume. Even so, the texture is wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt: Was nasty Fiona the only mole in the British secret service? In this most devious of games, can any side truly win game, set and match? --By John...
...monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...
...visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly good at it." --TIME, April...