Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strip See-Throughs. Lanai deals with the would-be starlets of Hollywood, but the artist builds it around an upside-down Buick to suggest both physical extravagance and social mobility. His metaphor is also central to the F-111, the 85-ft.-long anatomy of the costly, controversial fighter-bomber, which will go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum next month. He used the F111 to symbolize, among other things, his indignation at the Kennedy assassination, which he sees as the supreme example of "horrible extravagance...
...family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur Mills, and comforted by a third, none other than his Vice President. Artist Levine, working with the editors, first thought of showing L.B.J. as a burdened Job, but he ultimately chose Shakespeare's troubled King as the best metaphor for a man beset with problems-many of which come from within his own party. He did not think in terms of a literal analogy with Lear and his troublesome offspring, but preferred the King partly because "I'm a father myself...
...High, six teachers asked out even before he arrived. Since then, the new headmaster has got rid of 23 more. "You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor. "A good school needs administration, perspicacity and guts...
...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
...officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...