Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commander Cannon announced: "We are ready to step in the batter's box and belt a few pitches with hard stuff now that the contract is signed for our third season with the big leagues." Anyone looking for the roots of the current military infatuation with athletic metaphor might possibly start with the playing fields of Whittier, Calif...
...stations, for example-will be required to make restitution of a more theoretical sort. Instead of actually paying out refunds, says Grayson, they will be forced to "disgorge" excess profits in the form of lower prices-low enough to balance out the original overcharges. Grayson's choice of metaphor was unhappy, since the first products to which it applied were the sandwiches, French fries and other short-order items served up at F.W. Woolworth lunch counters. Their managers had violated the rules by raising prices without obtaining advance approval, and as a result had to lower...
...reached a climax in Albert Bierstadt's enormous canvas of the Rocky Mountains. Almost Wagnerian in scope-soaring peaks, resounding cataracts, blazing shafts of sunlight-it shows nature completely overwhelming insignificant man. On a lesser note, such painters as Jasper Francis Cropsey saw nature as a metaphor for God and respectfully depicted people as tiny objects in glorious settings...
After the first hurrahs for The Godfather, critical reaction to the movie has snagged on a few key questions. Does it revel in Hollywood gangster melodrama? Does it sentimentalize the Mafia? Does it present the Mob as a metaphor for all business or politics? One of TIME's cinema critics gives his assessment...
Coppola extends this moral masquerade even further, using the Mafia as a metaphor not only for cor ruption in business, but for corruption in all centers of power, emphatically including government. "My father is no different from any other powerful man," Michael tells his WASPish girl friend Kay. She says, "You're being naive. Senators and Congressmen don't have people killed." Replies Michael: "Who's being naive now, Kay?" When the Don expresses regret that Michael could not have been "a Senator, a Governor," the son promises him, "We'll get there...