Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moore, who is black-haired and disciplined and handsome, shows how a pro can lose with the shadow of a smile. In three years I hope McKay shows the country how to win at professional football without presenting the game as a metaphor for life...
However, we must congratulate Mr. Savit, who incidentally was seen cavorting with a recently deceased and rapidly decomposing barnyard critter (the mainstay of our milk industry), for his precise spelling and immaginative use of punctuation; and metaphor...
...snail's pace seems an apt metaphor for Tanin's plans to delay transition back to "full democracy" for at least eight years. Meanwhile, NARC's military bosses will remain as Thailand's real rulers, ready to step in if any civilian regime falters...
...here as the naive, overwhelmed Tom Levi, whose purpose in life is both limited and noble, who becomes entangled in events far beyond his wildest imaginings, and who, in the final analysis, demonstrates a resiliency and inner strength which one gathers his father, for all his brilliance, lacked. The metaphor of the marathon runner, ever striving for greater fortitude, is indeed apt, and Hoffman has found a role which, with its moments of humor and of pathos, affords him an opportunity to turn in a performance strikingly reminiscent, in its portrayal of a character confused and bewildered, yet ultimately driven...
Well, Altman's legend will not stand on this little contestant, no matter how much Vincent Canby cheers her on from the sidelines. But chalk it up mostly to Altman's never-failing eye for realism. Because once having chosen this metaphor--a band of bad actors for a generation of gun-slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising...