Word: metaphors
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Baseball is often held up as a microcosm of or a metaphor for America, and it's rarely true--but in 1978, in the Bronx, it was. A turbulent country was reflected in the tempestuous Yankees locker room, where racial tension crackled, where women sportswriters were allowed for the first time and where the first wave of baseball's free agents--led by two Yankees hurlers, Catfish Hunter, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, and Andy Messersmith--were pulling down astronomical salaries. At the center of the maelstrom, stirring it for all he was worth, was manager Billy Martin...
...some sense are the novel, and yet they exceed (run outside) it and are possessed by it all at once. To Steinbeck himself, in both life and literature, they were—and continue to be—more than just rodents, adorable yet problematic: they were tufted meta-metaphors of the act of writing itself. To understand more precisely the way(s) in which Steinbeck’s use of the rabbit-as-metaphor eclipses the rabbit qua rabbit, or even as reified rodent—furry symbol of proliferation—let us consider more closely Lennie?...
...Italy should head about an hour west to Padua (Padova). Once great and now willingly overshadowed by Venice, Padua may be small (population 200,000), but it packs an impressive punch. Bound by medieval walls, the city's center is filled with portico-covered streets, an appropriate architectural metaphor...
...pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of a chess game. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $12, $8 for seniors...
...language of epidemiology, the study and prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, is steeped in the metaphor of blockade. Doctors and scientists develop "barrier" nursing techniques and try to erect "ring fences" within society to corral a dangerous microbe, preventing it from jumping between people and countries. But one of the lessons learned by Hong Kong, the city hit hardest by the deadly epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), is that it does no good to slam the ring-fence gate after the killer has left...