Word: metaphores
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Whatever the fate of Last Call, Tartikoff will be just about everywhere next season. "To use a baseball metaphor ((as he does repeatedly)), I have a slugging percentage of about .600," he says. "For every 10 things I've brought to market, six of them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville...
...Thelma and Louise" at 10 p.m. What would it belike to be pushed over the edge of a cliff? Thisfilm takes the metaphor built into such a questionand turns it into a plot...
...Cuba is a land of dreams, it is because reality is too cruel. Ana's house is a perfect metaphor for the country crumbling around her: the whole economy is in a state of advanced decay. After more than 30 years of Soviet-style socialism, life has turned much worse during what the Cubans call the "special period," the four years since the Berlin Wall crashed and carried away the Soviet lifelines. Cuba must now fend for itself...
...prosecutions. The most successful thing in the Whitney show is a reworking of Man Ray's famous Surrealist object, the wrapped-up sewing machine. Entitled Lumpenprole, it is a room-size afghan rug with (what else?) lumps, the size of children's bodies, beneath it. A burial shroud? A metaphor of silencing, muffling, the defeat of speech? Any of the above, or all, depending on your preference...
...traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic. But Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American essayist who is a psalmist for our new hybrid forms, points out that the interaction is more fluid than that, more human, subject to daily revision. "I am Chinese," he says, "because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America." And even as he announces this new truth, Portuguese women are becoming American, and Irishmen are becoming Portuguese, and Sydney (or is it Toronto?) is thinking to compare itself with the "Chinese city" we know...