Word: metaphores
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...circle of tender lovers. A mound of human flesh, limbs dangling askew. A metaphor that combines fertility and civility. An image of doom and despair. It is a tribute to Paul Taylor's burgeoning imagination that in two new pieces premiered at Manhattan's City Center Theater, he has choreographed a pair of utterly different works, not so much contrasting as reflecting separate meditations on the human condition...
...site in Paris where a crane will suspend a locomotive steam engine 80 ft. above the ground, with its nose pointed straight down. At least once a day, while hanging in midair, it will chug into action for about five minutes. You might think of that as a good metaphor for cultural exhaustion. He says no. "The moment we live in is a great time to make art," he says. "We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work...
...these examples, the word choices and linguistic quirks that necessarily characterize “creative” writing lend an implicit bias to the story. If a lead uses metaphor to enliven descriptions—as the lead about Louie’s does, above—the object of comparison chosen can reflect a biased view. Likening Cheng-san Chen’s departure from Louie’s to the beheading of Charles I doesn’t reflect so well on the former...
...metaphor from Fleischer's own beloved baseball, it's as if a guy who got to ride on the Yankee's bench for two World Series seasons emerged from the dugout to tell us that Derek Jeter can really hit and field. "After [the press conference] was over," Fleischer writes, "I joined the President in the residence and told him I thought he did great. He felt good too, as he reclined in his chair and lit a cigar...
...silty muck at the bottom of the East River, and finally he gets promoted to working on the bridge's two towers. As the narrative flows forward, Gaffney's hero gets a series of names and aliases--George Geiermeier, Robert Koch, Frank Harris--and his construction work becomes a metaphor for the immigrant's task of building a new life and a new identity in the New World: "Experience had taught him that he could be whoever he or someone else wanted...