Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rifkin is using beef as a metaphor for all that has gone rotten in the modern world, wrongs that he attributes to a metaphysical loss of humans' | sacred relationship to nature. And cattle, because of their prominent role in ancient mythology and their haunting presence in prehistoric pictographs, lend themselves well to this moralistic exercise...
Darling also explores widespread fears of sexual violence, which for women, become "a metaphor for their own confusion over what is permitted and what is not." She offers quotations from Allison H. Mnookin '92, former Crimson President Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 and Kathryn I. Frucher '93 to illustrate this atmosphere of fear and confusion...
...devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part zoo, the film's milieu is a nice metaphor for the rudderless morals of post-Everything Europe. Writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro go in your face with baroque camera angles a la Citizen Kane and zillions ) of rude sight gags; the movie could be called Welles-apoppin. When style runs riot, it can be lots...
...Clinton as a politician merely trying to win votes by promising tax relief for ordinary Americans. Tsongas argued that the middle-class tax cut and the tax credit for children younger than 18 -- both moves favored by Clinton -- would divert $55 billion a year from investment. In Tsongas' mashed metaphor, Clinton would waste precious "bullets" that could be used to jump-start the economy's manufacturing "engine." Only "when the engine runs," Tsongas said, can the country afford "other kinds of things," such as tax relief...
...content to simply explore the conflict between making art and making love in a retrospective of the famous couple. She creates a modern day O'Keefe/Stieglitz couple who speak in contemporary slang instead of smooth myth tones. While Georgia says passionately to Stieglitz, "I will not be your metaphor," her modern day counterpart curses "Fuck...