Word: metaphores
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Chomet (who did use computer animation for the film's cars, boats and trains) has a canny design eye to match his narrative wit. The old woman is stocky and clubfooted, a compact metaphor for stubborn dedication; her grandson is so spindly he could ride Giacometti's Chariot; Bruno the dog has more personality than 101 Dalmatians. The movie isn't aimed at kids, but they will find plenty to beguile them. And don't worry that the film is French; it has hardly any dialogue. Doesn't need it. The gnarly imagery and the movie's understanding...
Fawcett’s script tended to explicitly lay out its themes and then left them out to dry like deli fixings. “My body has too long been a metaphor,” lamented one character; at another point, a monologue alluded to the “volumes and volumes written by dead white men” to which The River sets itself in opposition...
COLIN: You cannot afford to miss, picking up on that metaphor. You miss by an inch, and you've got something that's catastrophic. There's a thin line between being deeply moved and the desire to vomit...
...best journalism contains some art and the best art contains some journalism. Any nonfiction report on the world around us needs some art, in the form of narrative or metaphor or linguistics, to bring life to mere facts. Concurrently any work of art worthy of the name will report something new (either in content or form) to the audience. Joe Sacco, intrepid cartoonist, has been snooping around the borderlands between these disciplines for several years. His first important series, "Palestine," (1995) about life in the holy land during the first Intefada, gave us something radically new: a comic book that...
...famous flair for amusing metaphor and clever one-liners—the legacy of decades leading church sermons, protest marches and political campaigns—kept Sharpton agile during a barrage of tough questions from his equally brash interviewer, with whom he joked during commercial breaks...