Word: metaphoritis
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...balance. Suddenly, having felt the suspense, I wondered how members of both parties--not only on the floor, but in the press--could exaggerate the vote's importance, then, in a classic case of timidity, minimize it when the President lost. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54's mixed metaphor after the vote met derision in the Senate Press Gallery" "If no more shoes drop on Irangate, [the President] is out of the woods...
...with his face screwed into a fury pokes a blurry gun straight at the camera, while a young friend at his arm questions the act with his eyes. In the brief catalog that accompanies the San Diego show, Curator Arthur Ollman reads this image as a metaphor for Klein the photographer: "The aggressor and the intimate voyeur," Ollman calls him. "Both the provocateur and the calm student of provocation...
...played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself to be when her man goes randying after younger bodies and more pliant hearts. Andrews doesn't tear a passion...
WITH WIDE-RANGING and incisive comments on death, co-ops, language and television packed in into a General Hospital setting, it's clear that DeLillo has found another metaphor for attacking the metaphysical clutter of modern American life. From the mysterious link between football and nuclear war in End Zone, to the ennui of Star Wars style warfare in "Human Moments in World War III," DeLillo has proved himself to be the modern American master of fear and loathing...
...PORTRAITS FOR IN THE AMERICAN WEST: "The tradition of background space in portraiture tended to be greys, giving a deep romantic quality, implying the sky. White is emptiness, grey is fullness. The edge of the film acts like a box--the empty, unrelenting space behind the figure is a metaphor...