Word: metaphores
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...city, just a desert suburb with lawn sprinklers, a Disneyland where all the rides are bumper cars, where you can smell a man's exhaust fumes but not his breath on the back of your neck. They may figure, too, that old-city competition and corruption are the best metaphor for their mode of doing business. So in between crafting fantasies of L.A. dolce vita, they make occasional fantasies about the towns they left behind...
...Gal/Liat Dror and Amiel Malale Dance-part of the Israeli/Jewish-American Dance Festival. "Equus Asinus" explores the historical role of this beast of burden in Israeli society and presents it as a metaphor for the relationships and tensions between Jewish and Arab communities. At the Emerson Majestic Theatre at 219 Tremont St. in Boston. Call 492-7578. Thursday and Friday...
...that I've exhausted the ideas/food metaphor, let's talk music. MC Hammer admitted that the "Dowmp, Da-Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp" riff in "U Can't Touch This" was lifted from Rick James's "Super-freak," and gave credit where credit was due. But I could swear I've heard the first four notes of the riff in Falco's "Der Kommisar" and Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," too. Who's plagiarizing whom? How many possible notes and rhythms are there? Isn't copycatting inevitable...
Keen attributes the success of his book to his sense that we are in an epochal moment in history. "All the metaphors of Western culture are beginning to change," he says. "The warrior metaphor has shaped men's lives for hundreds of years. That is changing, but it will take another hundred years. The code we have to break is that of the warrior psyche." Keen, like Bly, regards the recent gulf war as a return to old and discredited metaphors, more a problem of George Bush's unresolved male identity than geopolitics. Man, he says, must become a custodian...
...books that survived the toughest test of all: competing with the game itself. Each of these books is analogous to an opposite-field hitter; instead of trying to drive the ball up the middle, they offer glimpses of the game from odd angles and use the sport as a metaphor for something larger...