Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Honest men may differ as to just how dreadful, hopeful or insignificant the commercial Jesus fad is, including Jesus Christ Superstar as its centerpiece. Balanced against the enduring metaphor, the bitter and sweet mystery that the life of Christ embodies, Lloyd Webber and Rice's rock opera seems sad enough. It is depressing to imagine what certainly is the case, that too many Americans, whether religious or not, will know no more of the Gospels and the Passion than Superstar presents. Yet with all its sins of omission and commission, the production very well dramatizes one transcendental meaning...
Malcolm McDowell's excellent acting lends the proceedings a strong sense of reality that they hardly deserve. At the fadeout, mourning his lost love, McDowell is brought around to accepting life again by a couple of fellow patients who engage him in a game of Ping Pong. The metaphor is trite, mawkish, ultimately ludicrous-perfectly consonant in other words with the rest of the movie...
...nation's businessmen and bankers generally supported the President's actions. Said A.W. ("Tom") Clausen, president of the Bank of America: "We believe his program will begin to make possible an orderly transition out of the freeze." With liberal use of metaphor, Dow Chemical Chairman Carl Gerstacker responded in terms that Sports Fan Nixon understands best: "The President has hit another home run in the fight against inflation." Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lynn Townsend voiced the hope that the Price Commission will allow some increases on '72 models, which came out during the freeze. Said he: "We price only once...
...aesthetic load weighing on such a slight situation. But the sweet muse, Natalia, would smile upon a good writer trying to define and dramatize the mystery of creativity. In the end, Tony thinks, "If Natalia was sun and earth, I was gravity." It is a stunning metaphor for a writer's goal: the illusion that he controls, even for a euphoric moment, the attraction of heavenly bodies...
There was a time in the stone age before the Beatles, as Pop Critic Richard Goldstein once put it, when everybody under 20 seemed to be searching for the "perfect wave." Along with hot-rods and sports cars, surfboards had become both means and metaphor for the new, rootless mobility of the American young. In Southern California especially, sunning, surfing, chasing chicks, gobbling Cha-Cha burgers, even watching TV became life values worth celebrating...