Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...titles: "Generals and Majors" (XTC), "World War" (The Cure), "Cold War" (Devo), "Battleground" (Joe Jackson), "Life During Wartime" (Talking Heads). There are songs about war in the Middle East, songs about nuclear war, political songs against war, jingoist songs for war, songs that use war as a metaphor for everything from love to race relations. Our songwriters have war on the brain...
...anything, the actors standing around listlessly between histrionics. The storm, of course, is brought in by the arrival of Serebriakov and Elena, and foreshadows the emotional storm in the third act; but when the rain is abruptly turned off after the two depart it cheapens a very subtle metaphor. And I confess I don't really understand the point of the jazz music that is played at the beginning and end of each act. Although it is beautiful, lonely music it has nothing to do with the rhythm of the production; if it did, it would have been a daring...
...independent because he had no time to organize a third party, which would have given him a supporting framework. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Anderson was suddenly thrust into the arena and asked to play major league ball without a team and without preseason conditioning." Altering the metaphor, Campaign Director David Garth says, "It was like they gave us a moped and told us to race against two Maseratis. But I still think it wasn't that far off if we had done it correctly." Sid Gardner, a liberal Republican who coordinated Anderson's efforts in Connecticut, learned...
...fact, however, the economy is nowhere nearly so healthy as such statistics suggest. Observes Irwin Kellner, chief economist for New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust, in a grimly appropriate metaphor: "Even someone who falls off a 15-story building bounces a little bit when he hits the sidewalk...
...Godard female has often been a prostitute. She expresses his vision of every man-woman relationship, and serves as a metaphor for the personal film maker in a tawdry art-industry. But Isabelle, in Every Man, exists simply to endure: to suffer the indignities of venal clients, and to survive with her mystery intact. She is a modern, unsentimental version of the silent-screen innocent who is noble not because of what she does but because of what men do to her. She is touched - indeed, pawed and probed - but never moved. And that is her revenge on the male...