Word: metaphorizes
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...Castle of Crossed Destinies has more up its sleeve than card tricks. Its voiceless strangers have lost their way in a dark forest straight out of Dante. Their lodging resembles a late medieval castle, but it may also be a metaphor for history: "... an inn of passage, where people unknown to one another live together for one night..." The guests are figments in the Western narrative dream of Chaucer and Boccaccio...
...penis envy and the castration complex, but argue that the effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content" of a problem-in other words, it is merely a metaphor for whatever may be troubling a woman, and not a "bedrock" problem...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...
...there really a bright star nearly 20 centuries ago that guided the wise men from their lands in the east to the manger in Bethlehem? There are those who dismiss the star as nothing more than a metaphor; many ancient civilizations believed that new stars heralded the birth of almost any king or conqueror. Stars, after all, are said to have greeted the births of Mithridates and Alexander. But others take the Christmas star more literally, and not without reason. Astronomical records show that there were several significant celestial events around the time of Jesus' birth...
Browne is less adventurous on "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate." Rather than build metaphor upon metaphor as in the stronger songs on his third album, Late for the Sky, he relies upon one image--the dark and silent gate--throughout the song. The remainder of the lyrics are direct but dull: "The only thing that makes me cry, is the kindness in my baby's eye." And the music functions only as a background motif for Browne's poetry, which isn't really worth spotlighting. Drummer Jeff Porcara could easily be pounding away with one hand tied behind...