Word: metaphores
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...latest book, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), Jencks complains that "any building with funny kinks in it, or sensuous imagery" has come to be labeled Post-Modern, and suggests that the term should be restricted to hybrid, "impure" buildings that are designed around historical memory, local context, metaphor, spatial ambiguity and an intense concern with architectural linguistics. That, obviously, excludes the glass-cliff builders like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Minoru Yamasaki of the World Trade Center, or spokesmen of cultural grandeur like I.M. Pei. Indeed, given the architecture Americans have had for 40 years, such a description virtually...
Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...
...speculative boom. Rapid inflation came to be recognized not as an aberration but as a terrifying built-in tendency, a consequence of too many demands being put by too many people on a limited amount of national wealth. In an April speech, Carter put the point in a striking metaphor: "Inflation has become embedded in the very tissue of our economy...
...people are the living dead, incapable of emotion or strong belief. In the old movie, a smalltown doctor and his lady bravely, exhaustingly and with no assistance tried to resist the takeover. In its day, Invasion made a moving, and exciting film. Among other things, it was a metaphorical assault on the times when, under the impress of McCarthyism and two barbecues in every backyard, the entire Lonely Crowd seemed to be turning into pod people. The remakers have missed that point, failing to update the metaphor so that it effectively attacks the noisier, more self-absorbed conformity...
...roulette as a recurrent image. The game that we first see as a Viet Cong torture later shows up as a sport conducted by wagering South Vietnamese in smoky Saigon back rooms. Besides serving as an expressionistic picture of the capital's profiteers, the roulette game becomes a metaphor for a war that blurred the lines between bravery and cruelty, friends and enemies, sanity and madness. Unfortunately, other conceits in The Deer Hunter damage the film. A first-hour wedding ceremony, designed to establish the tribal rites of Clairton, is absurdly repetitive. The portentous sequences of the men hunting...