Word: metaphores
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...Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable as an Ahab. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, her most recent novel, uses an eatery as a metaphor for family life, in which food is the stuff of history, and patrons are constantly eating and running away. The wife of an Iranian child psychiatrist who is also a novelist, Tyler still bristles at being described as "a mother of two." Says she: "For me, writing was the only...
...technology of celestral navigation was first systematized by Henry the Navigator, mankind did not know where their ships, so guided, would travel. Similarly, the newly-discovered road map to life itself will undoubtedly lead us to new worlds of which we now have no knowledge. To extend the metaphor. I am arguing that we need to take special care to have in the "crow's nest" someone watching not only for reefs and rocks but also for new land...
Moonlighting. Four Polish laborers spend an edgy month in London-December 1981, when Poland fell under martial law. Writer-Director Jerzy Sko-limowski has devised a bitterly funny metaphor for the dilemma of the liberal tyrant. As the foreman, isolated from his workers and his own best instincts, Jeremy Irons is quietly spectacular...
...both the national and local press, residents accommodatingly repeated stories of good times past and a dismal present of losing jobs, families and homes. The initial round of news coverage, portraying Tent City as a virtual human metaphor for the effects of the recession, prompted a mammoth, warmhearted response from the Houston community. Everything from fresh fruit to live poultry began arriving. Says Howard Sandoz, a railroad inspector who brought over 12 lbs. of steak: "I saw the tent people on TV and thought about all the food I had. I'm just doing my part." Houston-area companies...
Cherson and company have done a good job of mechanical wizardry, enough to eliminate any reminder that this is an amateur production. Though the videotape and monitor comprise the central metaphor for the action, the machinery focuses observations on Krapp rather than drawing attention to itself. Through it, the themes of the piece gradually and firmly emerge...