Word: metaphoritis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into a metaphor that ties the whole work together in a neat and ambivalent fashion by the final curtain...
...today because of our power, would suffer a blow from which it might not recover." The doubt remained: How far and how long would Nixon have the U.S. fight to keep Saigon out of Communist hands? Few Americans could be soothed when Nixon resurrected an ancient and unhappy Indochina metaphor, saying that his next troop withdrawal announcement would bring "some indication as to the end of the tunnel...
Given the political nature of the subject, the temptation is toward a hopelessly academic treatment, but Saura, for the most part, avoids high-minded moralist (though there is in particular one strained metaphor of a paralyzed right hand for right-wing ideology). Like Bosch's fifteenth century painting from which Saura takes his title, the film tries to step inside the allegory it sets up and give itself to a wide-eyed fascination with the workings of vice. Saura has learned from Bunuel, whom he openly imitates at times, how to use sensual indulgences to make an intellectual point...
...Wilcox was careful in his speech to emphasize that General Education was in no way being downgraded in importance. In a long, dramatic metaphor involving a suburban lawnmower, he suggested that Gen Ed was still running fine, and merely needed adjustments...
This statement was in response to an earlier metaphor by Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, who has insisted at several earlier Faculty meetings that non-major curriculum reform was "putting the cart before the horse...