Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the Old West, those days are gone. Instead, in Pale Rider, Eastwood presents us with a character who is a walking mixed metaphor of death, kindness, and virility. The new fusion of Clint as sensitive actor with Eastwood as macho killer might actually be tolerable however, if the entire movie was not such an obvious rip off of Shane, the classic 50s Western with Alan Ladd...
Meet the Not-Quite-Ready-for-Yup-piedom Players. They are friends from college days who hang out at St. Elmo's Bar, which provides the movie with a title and a metaphor. Do the flashes of feeling they experience carry genuine heat or are they as meaningless as the flashes of light that sometimes play about ships and planes in the night...
Author Cynthia wide-ranging works have focused on Jewish culture read an oration called "Metaphor and Memory," in which she argued that the two subjects were inextricably linked...
...finesse and cultural hierarchies that hit postwar French intellectual life. He had an unerring instinct for farce. Picasso had painted bulls, but for decades few advanced artists had painted a cow, and when Dubuffet did so it seemed to set itself against a whole tradition of animal as heroic metaphor. And for those who (understandably) yearned for a return to the French pictorial tradition of luxe, calme et volupte, the sight of Dubuffet's monstrous kippered nudes squashed flat in their beds of pigment was not only an affront, it was like the slamming of a door on a much...
...Call is an incredibly complex book. In most contexts this claim would be merely trite; but John Hersey's crowning achievement spans such a wide, indeed almost terrifying, scope of history and large-scale disaster that no one pat conclusion may be drawn from it. The overall metaphor of "West meets East" helps the reader grasp the book, but many, many more ideas lie couched is every nook and cranny. China's cataclysmic passage into modernity deserves no less