Word: metaphorization
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...aspect of the show in which people insist on finding metaphor is the blue color of the men themselves. The group gets asked 'the blue question' so frequently, according to Goldman, that "I went a few months saying 'You can ask anything, any question except 'why blue." The question is not only repetitive, but its also unanswerable, because, according to Stanton, "It didn't have a thinking process behind it." Adds Wink, "It's like saying 'why these chords' to a musician...
Chris Wink views fractals as the only suitable metaphor for life in the '90s, because "they're loaded with paradox, because everything's contradictory...the '60s thought the '50s were the one wrong way, and now we have the one counterway of the '60s. But, for the '90s, there...
...Blue Man Group's ability to meld fractals and shaving cream-to use optical illusion to comment on generational identity crisis-typifies the balance of fun and metaphor that makes the show work. The effort, explains Wink, is not to let any one dimension of the show eclipse the other. "We start out being avant-gardists and then we say, 'oh look, we're being assholes,' and then we start to play for awhile and our message becomes emotive. Going to a place of spirit and newness or celebration is always where we want to end up, and pass through...
...already occurred in millions of minds all over the country. The attitude is that it was a horrible marriage from the start and has long since dissolved in chronic dysfunction, occasional riot and permanent mutual contempt. Why keep the ugly, abusive charade going? (Was it some such domestic metaphor playing in the unconscious mind that made the Simpson case so fascinating...
...that only the barest clues to its identity remain--whether it is a tree, a seascape or the walls of half-demolished Paris apartments, their pale pink and blue distemper preserved in delicately tinted planes. In the '20s, the severe lucidity of his grids abolished all metaphor and memory. But they would return in the '40s, in New York...