Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misfired inspiration. Throughout the entire play, actors stumble about the cluttered little set, bumping into furniture and into each other: or, worse, they sit motionless for infinite minutes in Edward Manning's carelessly arranged shadows. The vacillation between clumsy meandering and utter stasis becomes a physical metaphor for tine overall confusion of this unfortunate production...
...heart attack following a kidney operation; in Moscow. Trifonov, whose father, a high Bolshevik official, was imprisoned and executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and whose mother was sent to a prison camp, once explained: "A lot of things can be said best through art, through metaphor...
...like me supposed to do? We're winning the war of words in D.C. too. Ling-Ling -that's my new love object-got her keeper to say that Hubby Hsing-Hsing is "just plain inept," and I like the Washington keeper's rugged sports metaphor, that Hsing-Hsing has to avoid hurt feelings like ''a football player when he's taken off the team...
...some of the best things on display ti these shows do not fall into any of the usual categories of the '70s. In particular, and perhaps best of all, there are the two rooms by Judy Pfaffat the Hirshhorn and the Whitney. If there is any central metaphor to Pfaffs maniacally strident and wonderfully energetic work, it is immersion. Colonies of shapes-spiky, blobby, twisting, knotted, tangled-sprout upward from the floor or hang in clusters from the ceiling. They proliferate like brain coral, elkhorn, lacy underwater fans; the wall beyond them dissolves into patches and drifts of submarine...
...Frank Capra reporter chasing a hot story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors of her apartment constitutes the season's most original metaphor for sexual foreplay ("Then I buff it gently, till it beams"), and, when he finally gets her into his bed, he warns, "I'll tell you right now, it's going to be wonderful." It is. Eyewitness is, after all, a romance of attractive opposites...