Word: metaphores
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...expected it to make it to the curtain call. A show about the writing of the Declaration of Independence? When the show beat out Hair for the Tony, some folks saw a revisionist plot. Yet 1776--a political debate with songs--could also be viewed as a metaphor for the fight over Vietnam. It was just as rancorous, as full of fury and compromise...
Advertising is in fact an appropriate metaphor for the film overall: trying to package the story for general tastes, it hardly concerns itself with what's actually inside. Perhaps the most interesting element of Kate's life, as the camera captures it, is her enviably well-stocked wardrobe, which expands into a seemingly endless array of power suits and cocktail dresses. All part of the packaging--too bad there's so little underneath...
Connerly may be correct when he states that "we have used racial preferences to prop up a system of artificial diversity instead of doing the heavy lifting that leads to real equality." His desire to see affirmative action dismantled, however, is premature. Using Connerly's metaphor, wouldn't it be wiser to do the heavy lifting first, thus building a solid foundation before hastily tearing down the prop? That way, no one will end up under a pile of rubble. KURT TEZEL Merritt Island...
...addition to Gray's oeuvre, Mars and Venus on a Date, will hit bookstores, and it will tell all sorts of people all sorts of things they already know. Remember that old baseball euphemism from make-out parties in junior high school? Gray, writing as if he invented the metaphor, explains how to get to first base and so on, ending with "sliding into home." More to the point, Mars and Venus on a Date will rehash some of the very same anecdotes and concepts--men are like blowtorches, women are like ovens--that can be found in Gray...
...highest foreign policy adviser. As President Clinton articulated, Albright has steely determination as well as a clear understanding of her dual function as a leading cabinet member and a female role model. We see that the second follows from the first, as she herself indicated in her own metaphor to outgoing Secretary Christopher: I hope my heels can fill your shoes. Madeline Albright has broken through the very thick glass ceiling of American foreign policy. Let's give her a chance to see what she can do with all that oxygen...