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Superman has always been prissily apolitical--as a resident alien, does he even vote?--but that may be the missing piece. He's a metaphor for America, but an outdated, obsolete America: invulnerable to attack, always on the side of right, always ready to save the rest of the world from its villainy whether or not it wants to be saved. In the past, every decade has got the Superman it deserves, and don't worry, we'll get ours, but he will probably be flawed, more man than super. Americans don't want to be told what to aspire...
...decline of drive-in theaters is the central metaphor in the 1971 classic The Last Picture Show. The film examines the monotonous lives of two high school seniors in a small town in Texas. It’s a coming of age story about—not surprisingly—nostalgic endings and new beginnings. (According to reviewer “AJJAS” on IMDB.com: “After 2 hours, I was ready to nuke that backwater Texas town and put the group of those characters out of their misery...
...decline of drive-in theaters is the central metaphor in the 1971 classic The Last Picture Show. The film examines the monotonous lives of two high school seniors in a small town in Texas. It’s a coming of age story about—not surprisingly—nostalgic endings and new beginnings. (According to reviewer “AJJAS” on IMDB.com: “After 2 hours, I was ready to nuke that backwater Texas town and put the group of those characters out of their misery...
...perfectly sensible policies are now strictly off limits for any Democrat who hopes to get elected—which is most of them. Desperate to dodge the “liberal” label, Kerry has been boxed into a corner (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). And unless the Republican-imposed taboos can be broken, the country may soon be on the ropes...
...match the places and times where the world’s great ideological clashes have broken out into violent action. Carlson has faced that unenviable task in Cambridge and Baghdad, two instances that are only barely comparable, but which have led him to the same descriptive strategy of metaphor...