Word: metaphoritis
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...have a name for his habit of withering cross-examination, but he does have an analogy. "My theory in skiing is, if you're not falling, you're not trying, and that's worth remembering. I teach that to my grandchildren." The former Navy instructor pilot tries a different metaphor: "You've got to work the edge of the envelope...
...Journey into Night and Wonderful Town--and the music business heaved up a slew of standards albums.) When old stars pass, they take with them a piece of a time when we weren't so niched and subdivided by the market and our own choices. To make the metaphor a little homier, the pop-culture mainstream is a family that used to get together for dinner once a week but now does so only at weddings (or dating-show finales, anyway)--and funerals...
...Where are the slaves? Ahem, where are the black folks? Minghella may be dodging the race issue (slavery is never mentioned), but he probably wants us to see the Confederacy both as one more lost cause worth fighting for, then fighting to get out of, and as a military metaphor for the impossible dream at the story's core--one of rebellious love, against all odds, that is worth pursuing no matter how it ends...
...Fatherland and Archangel, makes the most of it. He takes us into the life of the city by way of Marcus Attilius Primus, a young, pure-hearted engineer who specializes in building and maintaining aqueducts. Aqueducts were a big deal in A.D. 79, both the backbone of and a metaphor for the glory that was ancient Rome. One night Pompeii's aqueduct starts belching sulphurous fumes, then dries up altogether. Attilius sets out to find the problem...
...Sturm's ode to a Jewish team during the early barnstorming days of baseball looks like old sepia-toned bubblegum cards laid out to tell a story. Through it he explores the way the Old World adapted (with difficulty) to the New. A fascinating spin on baseball as a metaphor for America, Sturm gives us a story with the heart and drama of a great ball game. Full Review