Word: metonym
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender roles in the 90s. Each character represents an associative metonym in American history, grounded in the contiguity of time and space. Some even double as personifications of today's pressing issues (Go, Hasty Pudding!), such as xenophobia, international espionage, the religious right and the weather...
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