Word: metaphorizes
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...Tarkovsky refuses to lay this great symbolic egg and then just leave it there as nothing but a symbolic egg. He embellishes the metaphor with many more illusions and ideas, emotions and moments of suspense, dabbed subtly here, dropped subtly there for contemplation. Thus Kelvin must not only reconcile himself to the idea of dreams incarnate, but to a materialized, breathing, caressing version of his former wife, who had committed suicide on Earth. He becomes sucked in by his desire to love this bionic apparition, neutrinos or no. Stanley Kubrick may have meant to convey this same space-subconscious analogy...
...were reviled symbols of the party's crippling dissensions in 1968 and 1972. Then, in a genuine spirit of unity, the delegates garlanded Jimmy Carter with the Democratic presidential nomination. While proclaimed dull because of its lack of suspense, the convention was highly significant. In Carter's now famous metaphor of faith, it saw the Democratic Party reborn. For the first time in more than a decade, it seemed possible that the old coalition of labor, the South and the blacks could be reconstituted...
Moviemakers and playwrights love to employ a show as a metaphor for the world; customarily the works that use this device are impossibly pretentious and unpersuasive. As Altman presents it, this tatty wild West show is ill-choreographed and never delivers all it promises. Yet on the whole, it is an extremely graceful journey over ground that has tripped many in the past...
...ever mightier monarchs of Europe increasingly used "right reason" to interpret God's will as a mandate for the divine right of kings?a sacred and descending chain of authority. In 1680, Sk Robert Filmer's Patriarcha or the Natural Power of Kings expressed this idea according to a metaphor of relative power: "Kings are as absolute as Adam over the creatures." A king, thought Filmer, rules his people as a father rules ins children. In 1681, the writer James Tyrrell, a friend of Locke's, replied in Patriarcha non Monarcha that on the contrary, a king is as much...
...Hero is apparently in tended both as humorous metaphor and, in Menotti's words, as "a gentle, good-natured plea for Americans to wake up to reality, to abandon self-congratulatory illusions, to return to their former rugged individualism." The opera invites easy comparisons. There is a tape-erasing scene (David's awakening has been recorded); though the Nixon tapes are not mentioned, the point is obvious. Operatic comparisons are also in order. The Hero is a reverse twist on Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, that maudlin, heavy-handed tale about the impersonation of a dead...