Word: metaphores
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...leaders and our mainstream media have essentially construed the bombing as a frontal assault on the idea of America, a sort of sharp uppercut at the nerve center of our nation. At the same time, however, a 'revisionist school' has emerged, dedicated to stripping away layers of myth and metaphor and understanding the bombing in the context of a series of tragic events, foremost among them, the FBI raid on the Waco compound two years prior...
...blurb writer at the publishing house and maybe some reviewers who weren't into original thought, and second, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype back when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi because they had a whole big river, which is a ready-made metaphor right there, and all I had was this crummy shopping mall in upstate New York. You can sort of float in a mall, but not too far, just around in the same old circle, which gets boring even if you manage to score some decent weed...
...adequately characterize The Perez Family in a plot summary. For, writer Robin Swicord (Little Women) and director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) have crammed their film to bursting with wayward characters and strangely arresting incongruities. Nair has called the movie "an overripe mango," and that's as good a metaphor as any for a juicy, messy, exotic and utterly delicious treat...
...Angeles before and after a major temblor. Jordan's poetry too is highly accomplished and eminently singable. Although the piece was conceived before the 1994 Northridge quake, the title and title song derive from a memorable remark by a survivor of that disaster and form the show's central metaphor: "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky!/ I was miserable and aching/ at the way the news kept breaking/ I was searching for a reasonable reason for my smile/ I was finding what I want washed out completely in denial/ I was looking...
...Nixon presented a surprisingly intimate, sympathetic portrait of the former President, while Klinghoffer roused the ire of some American Jews with its compassionate presentation of Palestinian suffering. Jordan, the team's new librettist, is a political activist whose lapidary vernacular libretto uses a catastrophic Los Angeles earthquake as a metaphor for the shattering power of love...