Word: metaphorizes
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Baseball is obviously the best dominant metaphor for a book of this kind. It's got everything: pioneer individualism and a territorial imperative much more basic than football's corporate effort; a hockey, circus atmosphere peculiar to the American brand of mass hysteria; a dying smell about it; a system for making heroes in the center spotlight; an evangelical twist. It's got politics and it's got religion...
...caught in the cartoon loop of capitalist consumption. When we can gain sufficient distance to see ourselves in the Hollywood mirror, we may hopefully give due recognition to other filmic trains of thought which reflect light on the nature of film as perception, and cultural utterance. Brakhage, as a metaphor for the exploding, embryonic, experimental film ghetto of insight, is an opportunity for those interested in the potential and future for film to discover a most human vehicle of introduction...
Food comes to mind as a metaphor because of the character Algernon's good-natured gluttony. While he and his friend Jack ponder the mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly...
...that some kind of mixed metaphor...
...vows of poverty and chastity (Ignatius was ordained a priest three years later), but it was not until 1540 that Pope Paul III approved the small band as a new religious order. As part of the bargain, they placed themselves at the express call of the Pope. In Ignatius' metaphor, they were to be chivalrous soldiers of Jesus, mobile, versatile, ready to go anywhere and perform any task the Pope assigned. As a recognized order, they added to their earlier vows the traditional vow of obedience to their superiors and a fourth vow expressing their special fealty to the Pope...