Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death. Or is it the legendary rock-'n'-roller Buddy Holly, who was killed in a plane crash in 1959? Essentially, McLean's montage expresses a sense of loss that seems to pervade the younger generation. The passing of rock music has become a sweeping metaphor for everything else that is gone...
...CLOWNS. An autobiographical essay in which Federico Fellini employs his favorite metaphor (the circus) to pursue the phantoms of memory and fantasy...
...Smoking marijuana is frequently called a mind-blowing experience, and that description may be more than a metaphor. A team of British researchers has reported in the Lancet that ten habitual marijuana users were found to be suffering from cerebral atrophy, or irreversible shrinkage of the brain tissue. The patients, all between 18 and 28, were under treatment for various neurological symptoms and drug abuse. Using a special X-ray technique to measure the volume of the patient's brain tissue, the physicians found all ten to have significant atrophy, a condition frequently found in the elderly, people with...
Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire. This season, in The Contractor, which recently concluded a U.S. première engagement at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater and is scheduled to open in San Francisco on March 14, Storey uses the raising and striking of a huge tent as the symbol of the rise and fall of national greatness. In a still larger sense, the tent is emblematic of the vanity of human wishes-in art, in politics, in science, in business, in love...
...annotated by M.F.K. Fisher 20 years ago. It is clearly a labor of love but suffers somewhat from self-indulgence. The notes contain intrusive personal digressions and scholarly asides. They are not necessary. This is less a reference work than a delightful personal history written with the grand sustaining metaphor of food...