Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some coaches are funny despite themselves. RPI's Mike Addesa, an intensely serious man, occasionally spurts out a bizarre metaphor. Addesa once said that "they should throw the dirt over me now" if his team didn't come out and play hard...
...Harvard pass that became a goal was a stinging metaphor for the RPI season. RPI's young, talented team impressed people with its hard-hitting, energetic approach to the game...
...suicide in New York City of his twin sister Savannah, a successful poet, shakes Tom free, enabling him to question his ingrained Southern ideals. The response of his mother Lila to the episode--a woman who defines for Tom all that is wrong with the South--serves as a metaphor for the South's need to mask tragedy, and the obstacles Tom must overcome. Lila herself cannot go to visit her daughter because she has a dinner party planned for that weekend. "She's in one of those silly states she goes into when she wants attention," says Lila, attributing...
Words flutter in his air like seabirds. Tern. There's a word. A noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...
...distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints at the theme of an encroaching Industrial Revolution to which this doomed family cannot adapt. In the splendidly insightful version now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the incident becomes a central metaphor. Just as the characters cannot resolve the objective truth of what they heard, so they cannot arrive at a shared truth about their moral dilemmas, or even realize that they are not confronting them together but instead in juxtaposed yet separate lives...