Word: metaphorizes
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...content, that's another story. Bergman fails because he requires his audience to analyze the welter of symbols; yet being the sum of the parts, the whole film comes close to being one big metaphor. Unfortunately, this string of symbols does not form an organic work. A tank rumbles through the empty streets at no time in particular. Does it suggest the militaristic, secular power which has supplanted the absolute comfort of religion? Or perhaps it represents the phallic preoccupation of the woman who watches. Either way, its indiscriminate placement seems to reflect the work of a Waring Blender rather...
...action begins. Boy must get girl, lose girl, and get her back; or, in the metaphor of the play, the wall must be destroyed, be reconstructed, and finally be surmounted. To end the feud and crush the wall, the hire the Narrator, who is now a "Professional Abductor" known as El Gallo (he carries a card). The rape is a grand success (that is, it is a magnificent failure) and the act closes with the wall dismantled, and the families united in bliss, apparently about to live happily ever after...
Mississippi Metaphor. Post-mortem findings indicate that these patients have suffered from what Dr. Goodwin called "showers of clots." Then, switching to an appropriate Mississippi Delta metaphor, he suggested that their effect is to silt up the channels through which the lungs' blood flows. One result, which should help physicians in diagnosing the disorder, is that the concentration of oxygen in the arterial blood goes down with exertion, and so does the level of carbon dioxide...
LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Nine new enigmas in bronze and wood from Smith College's bearded sculpture prof. Huge hulking owls, masks of poets and inscrutable birdmen make a cryptic metaphor of death and immortality. Through...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a faulty but fascinating spectacle that converts a sleazy dance floor into a metaphor for the endurance contest of life. Julie Harris has rarely been so completely right for a role...