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...possible exception is Bobo the Self-Hating Chimp, an emotionally complicated primate whose existence in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House serves as a self-mocking metaphor for the crisis of modernity...
...whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
...until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...
Could Saturday hope to be its equal? McEwan doesn't try to imitate his past success. What his new book does is proceed serenely into very different territory, where the most secure existence is ringed by sinister possibilities--an enduring theme with McEwan and, these days, a good metaphor for the world post...
...only noteworthy thing about this song is that 50 Cent insists on using his “hotter than a tea kettle” metaphor again. It’s just not that good! Yet, you used it again, 50! How come? The Times pointed out in their review of “The Massacre” that you’re the only rapper badass enough to get away with it—but do you think that it is true...