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...circle of tender lovers. A mound of human flesh, limbs dangling askew. A metaphor that combines fertility and civility. An image of doom and despair. It is a tribute to Paul Taylor's burgeoning imagination that in two new pieces premiered at Manhattan's City Center Theater, he has choreographed a pair of utterly different works, not so much contrasting as reflecting separate meditations on the human condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Scenes from Heaven and Hell | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...site in Paris where a crane will suspend a locomotive steam engine 80 ft. above the ground, with its nose pointed straight down. At least once a day, while hanging in midair, it will chug into action for about five minutes. You might think of that as a good metaphor for cultural exhaustion. He says no. "The moment we live in is a great time to make art," he says. "We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does '80s Art Look Now? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...these examples, the word choices and linguistic quirks that necessarily characterize “creative” writing lend an implicit bias to the story. If a lead uses metaphor to enliven descriptions—as the lead about Louie’s does, above—the object of comparison chosen can reflect a biased view. Likening Cheng-san Chen’s departure from Louie’s to the beheading of Charles I doesn’t reflect so well on the former...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: AP-ing the News | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...metaphor from Fleischer's own beloved baseball, it's as if a guy who got to ride on the Yankee's bench for two World Series seasons emerged from the dugout to tell us that Derek Jeter can really hit and field. "After [the press conference] was over," Fleischer writes, "I joined the President in the residence and told him I thought he did great. He felt good too, as he reclined in his chair and lit a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fleshing Out the Truth | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...silty muck at the bottom of the East River, and finally he gets promoted to working on the bridge's two towers. As the narrative flows forward, Gaffney's hero gets a series of names and aliases--George Geiermeier, Robert Koch, Frank Harris--and his construction work becomes a metaphor for the immigrant's task of building a new life and a new identity in the New World: "Experience had taught him that he could be whoever he or someone else wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Built This City | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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