Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gandhi, said Menon, had discussed India's economic problems with the U.S., and this amounted to clear evidence, in Menon's eyes, that India was falling under U.S. domination. "The day of imperialism is not yet over,'' he warned in a mad melange of metaphor. 'The empire comes in by the back door, the front door and the side door. We may worship at the shrine of nonalignment, but if we throw away the content by letting the man who pays the piper call the tune, then there will be no nonalignment...
...crisp, she's trim and she mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor...
...Broadway MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, bruises the ear and hypnotizes the eye. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company envelops the playgoer in an experience that is largely inspired sensationalism, but quintessentially theatrical...
MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, flays the skin and vivisects the psyche. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superb Royal Shakespeare players envelop the playgoer in a disturbing, enthralling theatrical experience...
...Zhivago. Behind the opaque, frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline metaphor for his swollen anguish and the inevitable burning away of youth's illusions. Such fully visualized moments are the key to Director David Lean's triumph over the challenge of filming Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller. With monastic zeal (TIME, Dec. 24), he has translated the book...