Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Opera House would be a grand near metaphor, its unfolding shells echoing the billow of the spinnakers and jibs on the water below, its mat beige and glossy white tiles responding to every nuance of light in the sky. Scarcely a building in Sydney had any relationship to the harbor, but Utzon offered a design as close to its marine environment as the calcined wreathings and sea-cave fenestration of the Piazza San Marco are to the lagoon of Venice...
...Edward Hopper painting of a restaurant or a Godfather parody in which the Mafia leader is shot up while eating spaghetti, are heavy-handed by comparison. The device of framing the film with shots of the cartoonist Michael at his favorite pinball machine is intended to serve as a metaphor for Bakshi's brand of East Village existentialism but since Tommy it's a pretty trite trick. The conventional film segments at the end only expose the paucity of the caricatures and if Bakshi is forced already in his second film to resort to autobiography--he sees himself...
...their contrasts of skin pallor and gloom, of skin against the resistant textures of grit, wood and opaque brown foliage. There is an edge of contrivance: Black Water, 1972, is much posed, and the profile of the body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor of hills and undulant landscape. But in the best of these pictures, like The Sauna, 1968, and Indian Summer, 1970, laconic composition and reflective grasp of structure place this sturdy, blunt frame before us with a tender but remote specificity. Fact as poetry is becoming Wyeth's strength. · Robert...
...Harris (adapting his own fine novel), have great, knowledgeable fun with the game, getting in their licks at greedy owners, new-breed ballplayers who practice their pop songs right in the locker room, and old-breed managers and coaches who fail to understand that the game is merely a metaphor for life, not life itself...
...through week after week of Grade B and C plots, making them not only suspenseful but enjoyable. It is a rare accomplishment indeed to shine in this medium, but Conrad seems to be playing himself. As he overcomes stupidity on the program, one feels that it is a direct metaphor for his consistent battle to conquer the reigning tunnel vision of television production. Channel...