Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the political nature of the subject, the temptation is toward a hopelessly academic treatment, but Saura, for the most part, avoids high-minded moralist (though there is in particular one strained metaphor of a paralyzed right hand for right-wing ideology). Like Bosch's fifteenth century painting from which Saura takes his title, the film tries to step inside the allegory it sets up and give itself to a wide-eyed fascination with the workings of vice. Saura has learned from Bunuel, whom he openly imitates at times, how to use sensual indulgences to make an intellectual point...
...Wilcox was careful in his speech to emphasize that General Education was in no way being downgraded in importance. In a long, dramatic metaphor involving a suburban lawnmower, he suggested that Gen Ed was still running fine, and merely needed adjustments...
This statement was in response to an earlier metaphor by Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, who has insisted at several earlier Faculty meetings that non-major curriculum reform was "putting the cart before the horse...
Herman Melville's white whale was a metaphor for something cosmically elusive. But even in 1850, the whale was almost as easy to catch and slaughter as the buffalo or the Indian. Today, by a process of relentless elimination that is anything but allegorical, whales are becoming an embattled species. Ahab's great-grandchildren fire their harpoons from cannons...
...Ginsberg, one of the five poetry judges, made known his disgust with his fellow panelists' selection of Mona Van Duyn's To See, To Take by burning incense during the award announcements and castigating the choice as "ignominious, insensitive and mediocre." Miss Van Duyn riposted with a metaphor about a rest-room wall covered with dirty words along with a heart enclosing the names of lovers. "I notice the obscenities but write about the heart and the lovers," she said. "Ginsberg notices the heart but writes about the obscenities." In another part of the forest, Kurt Vonnegut...