Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROBERT GOOD'S metaphor may be mixed, but it is apt. As a swimmer in an ocean of organisms, man must have a means of identifying and resisting the ones that can harm or kill him. The major mechanism that does this, and enables man to survive, is the immune system, designed by nature to quickly recognize, attack and destroy any foreign matter that enters the body. The system is complex and depends for its function on a wide variety of highly specialized substances. Its main agents are cells called lymphocytes, which are produced by the so-called "stem...
...EMOTIONS of bored and dying men are the fabric of Ionesco's dramas. He expresses them with wonderful simplicity. Dilemmas are couched in the profound power of articulated feeling, not in metaphor or metaphysics. His characters speak with ever-expanding honesty and urgency, evoking the most elemental human feelings...
...Indians or Hunters or Afri can Warriors or Buddhist types who look you in the eye and sing to you." Increasingly, American fiction takes for its raw material things unearthly and bizarre. It is as though Nathanael West's Day of the Locust has been translated from a metaphor for lunacy into a lit mus test of reality...
...novelists seem to understand this aspect of future shock better than Pynchon. Fewer are able to handle scientific data as fact and metaphor as well as he. Those looking for reassurance in a confused time will not find it in this book. Gravity's Rainbow is for those who enjoy sustained bombardment by a remarkable mind and talent...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...