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...their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April 12. 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday...
...game of chess is a metaphor for the relationships.” says co-producer Sarah E. Downer ’04. These relationships are not merely the results of entanglements of nationalist agendas, but also the everyday consequences of Cold War politics. The musical takes a darker look at the characters’ romances and the ways in which they mask their (occasionally unwanted) everyday realities...
...always been preternaturally good at dispatching his enemies before they could get to him. And he plans ahead. Beneath the opulent marble palaces from which he has ruled, he built deep concrete bunkers reinforced with steel, stocked with weapons and linked to underground escape tunnels--the architectural metaphor for a dictatorship whose grandiose facade has rested on a foundation of insecurity. As U.S. bombs blasted apart those last-resort fortifications, even Saddam presumably had to take U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seriously when he declared, "The days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered...
...Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal). The U.N. wastes gazillions on bureaucracy and inane conferences. The sappy rhetorical globaloney of the place is gagging; the wimpy blue flag is a metaphor. Even UNICEF has had its embarrassments...
...called upon Europe to participate in “deliverance,” expunging “Hitler’s infected fingers from the surface of the earth.” What makes this situation different is that religion for Bush is not so much a metaphor, as it was for Churchill, but a blank check that sanctions war. If Saddam is evil, then there can be no grounds for compromise; as The Atlantic Monthly’s Jack Beatty puts it, “against evil, all means are sanctified.” Boiled down to religious truisms...