Word: metaphoric
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...movie risks (and sometimes falls into) pretentiousness as it reaches for (and often attains) an authentically original tone. What it says, through the metaphor of these lives, is that the burden of history has grown too heavy to bear, that we can no longer hope to master it. Our best hope lies in shedding it and finding our way back to a prelapsarian state. At the end, ambiguously, Tom and Mary seem to be heading in that direction. It is the only imaginable conclusion to an ambitious and challenging film...
...also written The Anatomy ofArchitecture: Ontology and Metaphor in BatammalibaArchitectural Expression (1987), which wonseveral awards, Africa's Cross River: Art ofthe Nigerian-Cameroon Border (1980), The AfricanArt of Theater (1980) and Beauty and theBeast: A Study in Contrasts...
...everybody hates him. The Benito Mussolini of baseball. The Roy Cohn of sports. Choose your metaphor. (Cohn and Steinbrenner were actually buddies; the Boss' links with Il Duce are more shadowy.) If men are defined by their enemies, Winfield stacks up quite well...
...Francis Bacon said, "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." Or, to use an economic metaphor, spending your seed capital may bring short-term prosperity but in the end leaves you broke because there's nothing left to invest and no more money coming in. Similarly, using up all the oil will eventually put auto companies out of business...
...torrents of words, flung out as Harry scuttles frantically through his meaningless rounds, are a kind of screen, preventing us from making any real connection with Harry. In part it's because Harry's context is neither a realistic portrait of modern New York nor a persuasive movie metaphor -- as classic film noir often was -- for urban scuzziness...