Word: metaphorizes
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...PLAY IS UNCONVENTIONAL, and an unusual undertaking for the Loeb mainstage. Panizza's ideas have been undeservedly shunned by directors, but the script has technical faults which director Richard Pena failed to recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
...East Asian art. Indeed, this small but stellar exhibit questions some of the fundamental assumptions of the Western viewer. Condensed to haiku precision, works like "Fly Whisk" perceive a foreign value-system in a familiar reality. The real merges disconcertingly without effort into the imaginary in the writing of "Metaphor for Buddha", or in the shifting space of Kobe Ho Shinno's "Landscape". Through the whole exhibit radiates the peace of an art which, unlike that of the West, does not strive for originality as an end-in-itself, but for some eternal essence...
...buildings of the Observatory, a hodgepodge of different eras and styles, might be a metaphor for the research they house...
...were ready to part from the reality and the symbols of a happy childhood. Probably this separation affected Rumer more seriously; it is she who seems obsessed with the torments of young people hovering on the steps of maturity. It is she who ar rests the mind with a metaphor for the land of contrasts, the country whose preening beauty cannot mask the terror that persists in life as in fictive reconstructions: "Do you know why the peacock gives those terrible screams...
...Blacks. The Harvard-Radcliffe Black CAST tackles Jean Genet's symbolic drama The Blacks--which uses racial hatred as a metaphor for the absurdity of modern society--with apparently mixed results. At the Loeb, April 14-17, at 8 p.m. Tickets...