Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woman is much the best example so far of a new feminist consciousness in movies, a statement that is clear and direct, fiercely calm and moving. There is not a moment of rhetoric or self-pity in it. Rather, Antonia is history shaped into a subtle and perfect metaphor...
...scrupulously shaded and controlled. Most impressively, Director Louis Malle (Phantom India) does not soften or sentimentalize Lucien, neither judges nor justifies him. Malle's voice is hard and even, his attitude toward his young protagonist understanding, yet cautionary. In Lucien's story, Malle has found a perfect metaphor, direct without being strident, subtle and urgent at the same time. As with Lucien, the foundation for national tragedy is laid quietly, and is built upon with a terrible ease...
...small change can have big repercussions. If each young family in the U.S. decided to have two children, the population in 2030 would reach 264 million. But if each family decided to have three, the population would be 444 million (see chart). Demographers have used an unattractive but vivid metaphor to describe the long-term effects of a baby boom. They compare the assimilation into society of the 64 million postwar babies, the largest cohort in U.S. history, to the process by which a python digests...
...metaphor was just as grisly but no more apt than Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's claim that Nixon had been "hung" and need not be "drawn and quartered." The plain fact is that the former President's own tapes provide prima-facie evidence that he was a participant in the Watergate cover-up conspiracy for which his aides have been charged with crimes. It is on that basis that Nixon does indeed have "problems" with Jaworski...
...determined to cure the nation's economic headache, and to his credit, he concedes that the doctoring will be long and painful. At his first presidential press conference last week, Ford once again declared that inflation is the nation's primary problem-or, in his metaphor, "public enemy No. 1." He vowed to make a start on fighting it by cutting at least $5.5 billion out of the federal budget for fiscal 1975, now in its third month. Though he earlier had talked against "unwarranted" cuts in military spending, he asserted this time that "no budget...