Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment that the collision occurs. He accuses and reviles our bourgeois hero, generating a crowd and a cop, who tries to open the car trunk in which the hero has hidden a corpse. While this threat of exposure is specific, the situation is more significant as a direct metaphor for the hero's emotional state. People surround him pointing and shouting; the possibility of escape decreases with every second. In an earlier Chabrol the metaphor would first have been amusingly demented, and only on second thought serious and meaningful. In La Femme Infidele the balance has shifted and the incident...
...Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and elder statesman of the birth-control movement, tried to turn the tables with a medical metaphor. "There have been undesirable side effects from these hearings," he said. "They have created a sense of great alarm." Guttmacher cited polls indicating that almost one-fifth of the American women who had been using the Pill had abruptly abandoned it, while as many more were thinking of doing...
...digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except an orange and the nutrients it contains. It is its own metaphor...
...game is something. The marathon is a handy metaphor for just about everything that's wrong with America: capitalistic manipulation and dehumanization: the physical and spiritual bankruptcy of the California frontier; the war mentality of the competitive nature of American life. Much of this is brought home (sometimes too explicitly) by the frighteningly familiar em???, played by Gig Young...
...clerical teachers are paralyzed by the lack of the very authority that they ought to represent. One priest, Father Penny (David Rounds), provides comic relief by the scabrously funny asides he delivers on his own so-called vocation. But Marasco strains rather portentously to make his troubled school a metaphor for a sick .world, and fails. Despite the fact that Marasco once taught in a boys' school, he seems not to know that children are astonishingly acute judges of their teachers, or perhaps the knowledge did not suit his plot. At any rate, logic is the last guest...