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...member for the program, said the reaction to WAC was “fear now, respect later.” “The course provided structure and discipline regarding written and oral communications,” he said. “The WAC slot was sort of a metaphor for hard, hard work and all that was rigorous and pressure-laden at the Harvard Business School.” Raymond’s wife, Alicia Margarita, said he had always enjoyed his work at the University. “He loved the students, he taught thousands and thousands...
...with a dirty war going on, outbursts of neo-conservative social injustice everywhere, and a pervading sense of capitalist malaise—where are the films that mirror our cultural situations in the manner of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” as a metaphor for Communism? The beginning of the AIDS crisis and the rise of new reproductive technologies set off waves of nutty horror films that took our collective fears and misplaced anxieties and made them mythic —and in so doing exposed a peculiar kind of American cultural psychosis. Obsessed with life...
...unless you’re looking for lessons in overacting, watching this movie is no better than buying a pin-up. If the film stumbles with its main characters, it crashes to the ground with its politics. The writers make the villainous archduke’s guild a jingoistic metaphor for “anti-American” Europe. With this society of nations bent on crushing all possible threats on the path towards European world dominance, Campbell tries to capitalize on lingering American hostility towards a continent that vociferously opposed the war in Iraq. It’s ludicrous...
While comparisons to AIDS are obvious, the disease is a metaphor for the worst parts of adolescence. Those who are afflicted show symptoms of varying degrees, which range from total disfigurement, including the growth of a second mouth, to growing a short—even adorable—tail...
...Guitar” sees Young wrestling with the problem of death—both physical and creative. The titular guitar performs double duty, serving as metaphor for both artist and art. Young sings, “This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s mine to play for a while / This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s only mine for a while,” as if to remind that both he and his artistic legacy are fleeting...