Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sculpture is mainly of the social ist realism school. Not that realism is un acceptable; we are rediscovering its value. The trouble is that no sculptor since Augustus Saint-Gaudens has been able to come up with a convincing metaphor that can be realistically rendered. The gods of Greek mythology have fled...
FEELING ANXIOUS and hungering to be in a place--sleep--where you can't be, is a metaphor for American restlessness, for all our desires for place and roots. It is a central irony of the poem that in order to achieve the American--or any other kind of--dream, you must be asleep, which these displaced lowans who come to California aren't exactly...
...performer and spectator. There are, of course, reasons beyond prudery for the resistance to explicit sex in mainstream movies. Film is still seen as a form of photography, and thus a medium of reporting: what you see is what there is, naked, without the novel's veils of metaphor or the ballet's screen of abstraction. Professional actors are neither trained nor eager to display themselves so ruthlessly for millions, and porno stars are unlikely to be convincing in a serious film's nonsex scenes. Audiences may have trouble shifting gears when a character they believe...
...artsy-fartsiness in these part should zip over to the American Shakespeare Theatre's touring Othello--and be damned. For this glum and unimaginatively "straight" production, with the aid of a flamboyant English directorial hand, skews and disfigures the original play far more effectively than the most startling new metaphor or outrageous directorial noodling. Tom Stoppard could not have done it better...
...storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon's role in history into a visual metaphor. What Gance pioneered has since become standard...