Word: metaphorizes
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...creative imagination, the modern world shrinks more and more often into the confines of a great institution. Writers have spun whole novels out of a single metaphor: a sanatorium (Mann), a concentration camp (E. E. Cummings), a university (Barth). First Novelist Peter Israel has gone a step further. His setting is a windowless labyrinth of long corridors and locked doors; its rules and workings resemble the capriciousness of Kafka's world. Whether it is an asylum or a prison, Israel never makes clear. More than anything else, it seems to be the author's vision of the enslaved...
Paul Hamburg's short story, "Frankfurt, 1965" presents that moment at which "the concrete passes into pure dream, remoteness becomes the only reality." The narrative is engaging, but Hamburg's fondness for metaphor and abstract diction create a prose rhythm which is occasionally too slow for the rapid mental fluctuations it describes. "But of course that shudder lay hidden in the earliest glances, electrified your passion, and even now has stolen back through the rainy night to fasten itself once more upon your innermost hopes of resurrection...
...dutifully admired by proud parents on go-to-school nights. If some young Ariel occasionally soars past the lyrical altitude expected of his years, the world only marvels at his precocity. But Richard Lewis, 31, believes that children are born poets who move surely through the language of metaphor and song, and he offers this anthology in evidence...
...cars. Frequently, Frankenheimer fails to establish the location of his characters, or which Grand Prix we happen to be watching. The characters never talk about racing realistically, or speak about it on a technical plane. To them, Arthur and Frankenheimer would have us believe, racing only inspires soul-searching metaphor; Bedford says, "with a car, you can take the body off, find out what's wrong, and fix it. Too bad people are never like that." Perhaps most exasperating though is the scene where Garner is forced to watch 16 mm footage of his mistakes in the last race. Frankenheimer...
...Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...