Word: metaphorizes
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...novelists seem to understand this aspect of future shock better than Pynchon. Fewer are able to handle scientific data as fact and metaphor as well as he. Those looking for reassurance in a confused time will not find it in this book. Gravity's Rainbow is for those who enjoy sustained bombardment by a remarkable mind and talent...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...
...hearkens back to an earlier age of the novel (and this must be a good thing) by working with the intensity of dramatic scenes--a throwback to Dostoyevsky. By taking diverse experience and building situations wherein he can forge these loose elements into a crystallized, jewelled point of metaphor, Rhodes is externalizing in a very sophisticated way. Episode after episode with the Sledges operates in this way; so does the whole trip through The City...
...Loman's, but Zindel writes as if he were too cool to identify the cultural forces Miller unveiled. Zindel's tottering steps toward social analysis stop at a symbolism laid on so thick that it is embarassing. Take, for instance, Mathilde's fascination with radioactive half-life, the dominant metaphor for Beatrice's disintegration; or Beatrice's boarder, a vegetable corpse of a woman, with palsied hands, lips curled in like a death grip, and big blind eyes that lear a reminder of isolation. These are the tools of Williams's memory mood plays, a manipulative sentimentalism masquerading as moral...
Nixon is so absorbed by this combative mood, and feels so pridefully at home in it, that he carried the athletic metaphor to excess. "You can't be relaxed," he said. "The Redskins were relaxed in their last game of the regular season, and they were flat, and they got clobbered. You must be up for the great events. Up but not uptight. Having done it so often, I perhaps have a finer-honed sense of this. But you can overdo it, overtrain and leave your fight in the dressing room...