Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metaphor may be strained, but the perception is as realistic as it is frightening. Since the late 1960s, inflation has first crept, then leaped upward, expanding its list of victims to include just about the whole of U.S. society. A rare investor, rich and savvy enough to buy Renaissance paintings, Chinese ceramics or African diamonds, may still make money out of inflation, but for almost everyone else the inexorable rise in prices makes economic life a debilitating race in which one must run ever harder just to stay even...
...biggest impression was made by an autobiographical sketch of Gorky's. It "was an excellent metaphor for how I felt. One must consider the idea of the artist as orphan, an orphaned prodigy, whose parents find him some where?the bulrushes, perhaps. To pretend to be an orphan, alone, is a form of narcissism. I suppose all children have this disgusting form of self-pity; but more so the artist, who is Robinson Crusoe. He must invent his stories, his pleasures; he succeeds in reconstructing a parody of civilization from scratch. He makes himself by education, by survival, by constantly...
...weather observer with the 14th Air Force (his knowledge of meteorology being slight), to Kunming in China. His task was to act as a go-between with friendly Chinese guerrillas. Since he spoke little English and less Chinese, he drew pictures for them. It was a small but poignant metaphor of once r ...... and future Sino-American incomprehension...
...with many friends and no discoverable enemies, he enjoys what he calls "the Kabuki theater of the night" ? the rituals of sociability and long dinner conversations. His extracurricular passion (apart from cats) is baseball, which he regards not only as "an allegorical play about America" but as a metaphor of ideal conduct. "At night," he says, "I often identify myself with the pitcher who pitches a perfect game. Before falling asleep I strike out a side, then in the next inning I initiate a triple play, then I go ahead at bat and hit a homer. All these fantasies...
...when she's old enough to be hassled by a strange man on the street (Bill Crawford). The question arises whether "Walking By" is supposed to be a statement against sex-role stereotyping (part one), treatment of women in the media (part two), anonymous verbal abuse as a metaphor for rape (part three), or all of the above. Any one of these themes surely merits more than a two-minute exposition. "Walking By" comes across as simply a bauble designed to illustrate a few of the realities of women's lives...