Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story structured and directed by transportation, yet, in a distinctly personal sense, it is a book about navigation. The chapters of this book do not flow in any conventional order; they do not happen chronologically, nor do they evolve around a central theme, subsequently germinating into a complex literary metaphor. Instead, the story just happens, which may cause many readers to feel disoriented and lost as the first few chapters progress, fluently transgressing borders of time and place. When Lindbergh is describing a memorable flyinglesson of her youth, she deftly weaves in hermother's experiences as a glider pilot, soaring...
...friends who row find the "rowing is a metaphor for life" idea to be trite, but none denies its truth. Nothing teaches the lessons of life more clearly: the importance of self-directed discipline, of teamwork and cohesion, of sacrifice and toil. Nothing can be so simultaneously frustrating and strangely satisfying. While winning the race is important, equally important is the quality and integrity of the preparation building up to it. And after all that, you still could lose the race by 0.6 seconds--a margin of three feet--as Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew did at last year...
...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...
...while he cannot quite capture the essence of the book here, he still demonstrates the ample talent that helped him win an Academy Award. Demme is still a master of camerawork, as he stitches together a rich array of shots and turns Sethe's house into a brooding metaphor of claustrophobia. However, he does not nail the pacing the way he did in Silence of the Lambs and he muddles the majority of the flashbacks. Ironically, the film is most lively when it resorts to Hollywood dramatics, most notably in a harrowing sequence in which Sethe is more willing...
...movie?' I told them that a novel is not what happens before the movie. Why can't it just be a book?" Morrison knows the page and the screen are only distantly related, especially in the adaptation of a novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into a film, Morrison notes, is "an ongoing battle, between the images of language and the images of the image. That's what the creative process...