Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it would be wrong to take the 'police state' metaphor too far. Because when a young man approaches one of the officers stationed near the Science Center and asks "Where's the protest?" the cop doesn't take the comment as a challenge to her authority, or that of the police power she represents. She doesn't bust his knee caps or even give him a dirty look...
...mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...
These are quibbles compared with Gehry's achievement in this museum. It's a building that spells the end of the smarty-boots, smirkingly facile historicism on which so much Postmodernist building was based--a quoted capital here, an ironic reference there. It isn't afraid of metaphor, but it insists that the essence of building is structure and placemaking. It confronts the rethinking of structure and the formation of space with an impetuous, eccentric confidence. No "school of Gehry" will come out of it, any more than there could have been a "school" of Barcelona's Antonio Gaudi...
...long relationship with the dominatrix Sheree Rose is a ferocious metaphor for any intense, complex liaison. Whatever welts she inflicted, whatever pain he endured and enjoyed, they surely deserved and loved each other. Flanagan's most poignant work of art--the culmination of a life in agony--is his death at age 43. It is recorded here with a grace that nearly matches the blithe heroism of a man most viewers might, at the beginning of this funny, disturbing, stirring film, have too quickly labeled sick...
...deeper level, though, lang's concentration on the smoking metaphor highlighted the show's Flapperesque appeal, recalling a time when cigarettes were a sign of a woman's subtle sexiness and when showmanship was the thing. On "The Joker," for instance, lang infused Miller's swaggeringly boastful lyrics with an ironic new meaning, as her flirtations and suggestive smiles elicited cheers from females in the audience. In perhaps the most moving of Drag's songs, "My Old Addiction," lang's voice and the piano were in perfect harmony, and the husky delivery made every line sound reverential. This was especially...