![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a comedy: a slight one, an odd one, an emotional one. Like every “concern troll” - the Internet term for one who ices here sneer with dignified worry - I may be making Girls sound like a dissertation. ![]() This was the value system that I was soaking in, Palmolive-style.Television was a sketchy additive that corporations had tipped into the cultural tap water, a sort of spiritual backbone-weakener. Here are my favourite examples of the figurative language she employed in her most recent book: Subtitled: Arguing My Way Through the Television Revolution, the book contends that television is not a wasteland and that much interesting, compelling art is produced on its airwaves.Įmily Nussbaum is currently the TV critic for the New Yorker Magazine and holds the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. I’ve written about Nussbaum before, but I’m currently reading her delightful collection of essays about television, titled I Like To Watch. Plain and simple, this explains why I’m such a big fan of American TV critic Emily Nussbaum. Add a dash of insightful, and I like them even more. I write today about a series of metaphors from American writer Emily Nussbaum…. I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. ![]()
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