Word: metaphoric
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...will always step into that space. There are a lot of tyrants around and they don't have to change because the people around them accept the way they are." The film focuses on the literary world, but it could take place in any hierarchy. "It could be a metaphor for what happens in movie circles," says Jaoui. "But it would be a failure if people thought we were being critical of a specific group. It's about human nature." In the hands of Bacri and Jaoui, human nature is sometimes amusing, sometimes devastating, but always familiar. They show...
...just can’t compete. While the show features the brilliant James Spader in its central role as a creepy-but-likeable prosecutor, Spader’s enjoyable presence is canceled out by William Shatner’s burnt-out senior partner (a living metaphor for ol’ Captain Kirk’s career, perhaps?) and the obnoxious camerawork...
Perhaps Americans were open to the “war on terror” because of their conversance with the war metaphor. Recent years have borne such concepts as the “war on drugs,” the “science wars” and the “Freud wars,” numbing us all to the strength and literal meaning of the word “war.” Referring to this problem, philosopher of science Ian Hacking wrote a few years ago, “Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed...
...part of the evolving world of museums, operating under the influence of everything from theme parks to installation art, that presentations make ever more of their points through mood and metaphor rather than written information. This museum is no exception. One long, curving display case holds hundreds of guns and rifles, from finely engraved Spanish pistols to modern Glocks, to bring home the ways in which force has always been the final arbiter in dealings between natives and settlers. Would it be useful somewhere to have that old-fashioned timeline too? Jolene Rickard, a professor at the University at Buffalo...
...toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard-Costello way: a second-order reform is sold with five-star trimmings as a "once in a generation" windfall. Costello talks up an agenda for solving the intergenerational crisis that lies ahead, but it is the bureaucrats who are showing leadership and doing the heavy thinking...