Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that some scholar in the future, arrogating to himself a similar kind of mushrooming philological method, will remark that the name Allegro means "lively" or "fast." He might also notice the similarity between "Allegro" and "allegory." And if he should reach the conclusion that "John Lively" was simply a metaphor for a fast-talking type who never really existed, who could blame...
...could be rendered irrelevant in a vastly and increasingly prosperous nation. Unfortunately, the fear caused by recession works sharply against this prospect. The recession may be only an episode, but it is perhaps also a metaphor for a deeper fear that American growth is not un limited and that the country may not be capable of paying for all its exigent dreams, of redeeming all its pledges too long deferred. Another scene...
Andreas Winkleman (Max von Sydow) is an inhabitant of that vital Bergmanian metaphor, an isle off the Swedish coast. Bearded, racked, his Christlike face appears to be a skull in rented skin. Indeed, his humanity is as transient as his lust. Andreas' only "friend" is Elis (Erland Josephson), a corrupt architect who shrewdly offers Andreas his money and haplessly lends him his frigid wife Eva (Bibi Andersson). She proves but a temporary distraction...
...experience turned her into a serious poet. "Writing was my mute outcry," she once said, and in her six slim volumes she evoked the tragedy of the Jewish people with what the Nobel committee termed "lyrical laments of painful beauty." Her style was unrhymed, psalmlike, rich in symbolism and metaphor, as in O the chimneys...
...touch people but is very concerned with the psychic communication involved. His method of rchearsal which he calls via negativa, is a stripping away of any barrier between the actor and the spectutor: he says that even the text is a barrer because it is just one more metaphor separating and so it too must be made subservient to the actor-spectator relationship. It just has to be total communication. Now, this seems to work for him in his special situation. What do you think about Grotowski in relation to what we've just been discussing...