Word: metaphores
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...movies about rock 'n' roll: concert films like Woodstock, lightweight dramatic vehicles tailored-to-measure for pop stars, documentaries offering cinema-verité glimpses of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. There have even been a couple of films that used the world of rock as a metaphor for power and ruin: for in stance, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (TIME...
...Godfather, Part II is a worthy successor to its predecessor. Francis Coppola has made a richly detailed, intelligent film that uses overorganized crime as a metaphor to comment on the coldness and corruption of an overorganized modern world. -Richard Schickel...
Several weeks' work was compressed into a few days. Coppola now confesses himself "bored to death with gangsters," but adds that "right under the surface of this film is a loose metaphor for America itself. Like Michael, we all have blood on our hands." The director also stoutly maintains that Godfather II marks his last game of sudden death...
...obvious comparison is Bleak House, which so sharply used law courts as a metaphor for 19th century England. But Snow is closer to Trollope (whose biography he is now writing) than to Dickens. For he is finally interested in showing how the system works, rather than in asking why or making a fuss about it. His wariness makes for low-level emotions. What Critic V.S. Pritchett said of Trollope could be said of Snow: "Reading him is like walking down endless corridors of carpet...
...despite the summit, had left themselves an encouraging amount of room for continued negotiations. Any progress toward peace, however, was likely to be slower and more cautious. "We're past the home run hitting stage in the Middle East," one member of Kissinger's party explained. The metaphor might have been lost on Israeli listeners, but the emphasis on "quiet diplomacy" was clear...