Word: metaphores
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...whole: his poetic eye, his formidable ability to marshal vast quantities of visual data, his passion for botany and geology -- and his flashes of provincial vulgarity too, his shameless playing to the gallery. If one wants to understand the 19th century appetite for pictorial mastery as a metaphor of the conquest of "untrammeled" nature, this is the show to start with...
...holy innocence. Said computer scientist Valentin Turchin, a fellow dissident who emigrated to the U.S.: "There are two categories of people who have left their imprint on humanity: leaders and saints. Sakharov was in the category of saints." One mournful colleague in Moscow summoned up a more scientific metaphor. "We've lost our moral compass -- the compass that showed us the way during these decisive years of perestroika," said space scientist Roald Sagdeyev. "He taught us to use simple words like conscience and humanity...
...Such a metaphor is available in Driving Miss Daisy. If you look hard, you can find in this account of the 25-year relationship between Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), a genteel Southern, Jewish matriarch, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a microcosmic study of changing racial attitudes in a crucial time and place (Atlanta, circa 1948-73). What you will not find in this marvelously understated movie is overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more...
Granted, perestroika is crucially different in that it goes hand in hand with profound political change. Maybe the plane's engines can really be repaired in mid-flight, as the unreassuring metaphor has it. But it will be an arduous process, requiring much more than injections of cash...
...characters says, "To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds." A garden requires discipline to tend it. It needs flexibility, stamina. I think I was also talking about the garden as being a metaphor for art, a life well lived...