Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film is masterful in all its tactics: use of theme, imagery, camera angle and metaphor. What better way to situate the story of romantic outlaws than to contrast their vivacity with the stark barrenness of the Depression and Dust Bowl 1930's. The initial fire that sweeps up Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is cooled when they run into early troubles at the start of their escapades. The first bank they try to rob together has gone bankrupt. They stop at a local person's farmstead and finding that the bank has foreclosed upon it, they...
...here it is, vociferous and blue! Metaphor crammed, bursting...
...That metaphor, by the way, about the one-iron...you're dealing with a couple of guys well-versed in some of the sports we'll be covering. Howard Cosell once wrote a book called "I Never Played The Game," but we hope to prove that journalism and personal experience at a higher level than sandlot football can mesh on the sports page. Sean played high school basketball, football and baseball, and David likewise dabbled in varsity baseball and soccer...
Someday, virtual-reality technology may enable people to put the screen icons behind them and step directly into the metaphor. In the future, says Levy, "we will cross the line between substance and cyberspace with increasing frequency, and think nothing of it." That's what Jobs would call a dent in the universe...
...were looking for the best metaphor for last week's earthquake, its power and ruthlessness, one could hardly do better than this brute subtraction: at 4:30 a.m. on Monday there was a three-story apartment building. Younger people lived on the second and third floors; the older folks tended to live downstairs so as not to climb steps. At 4:31 it was a two-story apartment building, with all the carnage that suggests...