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Billy Bathgate's metaphor for his own life is juggling: "It was juggling that had got me where I was...And when I wasn't juggling I was doing sleight of hand...magic was not the point, it was never the point, dexterity was to me the point...

Author: By Samantha L. Heller, | Title: A Rhythmic Tale of a Young Gangster's Life | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...music can be a metaphor of society," Cage said, adding that it represents a society "in which we would be willing to live...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Cage Abandons Random Style | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

...area--Shake, Rattle and Roll--seeks to capitalize on the Baby Boomers' nostalgia for 1950s memorabilia. Whether it succeeds in the market or not, perhaps the store's presence, located next to The Friendly Eating Place and down the street from the gleaming new condo complexes, is itself a metaphor for the changes that Mass. Ave. is undergoing...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: Going for Condos and Smoked Salmon | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

BABETTE'S FEAST Cooking is a metaphor for art in Gabriel Axel's wise, deeply ironic and richly realized adaptation of Isak Dinesen's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '88: Cinema | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...Enough is enough," Arafat told reporters. Then, in an apparent reference to Mubarak's metaphor, he added, "What do you want? Do you want me to striptease?" At last, his dance of many veils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dance of Many Veils: Shultz and Arafat | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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