Word: metaphores
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...second piece, "Scissors Paper Stone," (1994) is a 14-minute romp choreographed by Brenda Wang as part of the Alvin Ailey Women's Choreography Institute. The title is inspired by the childhood game (also often used to decide rooming disputes) "Rock, paper, scissors," which Wang uses as "a metaphor for mutual destruction." Indeed, the piece is a tug-of-war between a man, a woman and an "other," a woman dressed as a man who seduces and battles with both the traditional man and the traditional woman...
...prefer. His art is chiefly about two states: compulsion and regression. When you see a videotape of him smearing his face with black or green greasepaint, you aren't sure whether he's disguising himself or simulating the fecal games of a backward child. Autism is the governing metaphor of his work's "look"--the long-winded rituals of trivial movement, the ejaculatory phrases, the bouts of ungovernable rage...
...behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice, calm and in control, first tells the mime, "Shit in your hat," which he pretends to do, and then runs through a set of other instructions, which are obediently acted out; the result is an effective metaphor of weakness and humiliation...
...acknowledged masters of trance, recently released their first album since 1992's U.f.orb. It is really a mini-album, a sort of appetizer to Orb's new follow-up full-length album. Orb really takes on the metaphor of appetizer, calling the album Pomme Fritz, and naming some of the tracks after English pub food--"Pomme Fritz (Meat 'n Veg)," "More Gills Less Fishcakes," and "Bang 'er 'n Chips...
Unlike the rest of the working wounded, sick writers can turn their health problems into therapeutic books. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor undoubtedly helped her and thousands of readers deal with cancer. William Styron's Darkness Visible benefited its author as well as others torpedoed by depression...