The situation gives the playwright a chance to soar off into ostensibly poetic fancies involving celestial metaphors and spiritual mystery.
This probably sounds as baffling as Immanuel Kant's "The Critique of Practical Reason" — the source of the name Starry Heavens — but once you step onto the board, the heady literary references and celestial metaphors fall away.
This probably sounds as baffling as Immanuel Kant's "The Critique of Practical Reason"—the source of the name Starry Heavens but once you step onto the board, the heady literary references and celestial metaphors fall away.
Harold Connolly, the American who won gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, may deserve some credit for the celestial and dance metaphors — and for what some believe could be a slow return to United States hammer power.
And in the book, Mailer's hunt for celestial metaphors comes up a bit short, as the great renegade existential explorer of American letters discovers that the conquest of space is being planned and conducted by scientists, bureaucrats and other practical-minded, down-to-earth squares.
At others, one large hole in the canopy gave way to dozens of small ones, a kind of celestial colander with shafts of light pushing through – to jumble metaphors as befits this eclectic work.
Sure, those might be the people that Mormons believe accompany them into the Celestial Kingdom, but in some ways, the Mormon nuclear family is a metaphor for something larger.
One wishes "Woman" had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with, but the director Fina Torres -- whose previous "Celestial Clockwork" was also about legerdemain, appetites and a Latina heroine experiencing dislocation -- has a spirited light touch.
"Time turns metaphors into things, and stacks them up in cold rooms, or places them in the celestial playgrounds of the suburbs".
