Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort but as a communitarian one. "It would help those who help themselves," Clinton declared. As for Dole, he often uses as a metaphor the cigar boxes of cash that his neighbors in Russell, Kansas, raised for him when he was a wounded vet, while his wife says that as First Lady she will encourage Americans to give 5% of their income to charity and 5% of their time to volunteerism...
...tale, based on a collection of short stories by Greg Sarris, quietly uses the young couple's thwarted desire as a metaphor for the unfulfilled longings of a whole culture. The suffering Justine and her family endure as they try to integrate themselves into American life is unrelenting. And yet the show escapes the polemical feel of works by Leslie Marmon Silko and other chroniclers of Native American life. Haunting and superbly acted, Grand Avenue could give the TV movie a good name...
...used to think of psychic phenomena as New Age flimflam. I used to think of reincarnation as a myth. I used to think the soul was a metaphor. Now I know there is a God--my God, in here, demanding not faith but experience, an inexhaustible wonder at the richness of this very moment. Now I know there is a consciousness that transcends science, a consciousness toward which our species is sputteringly evolving, a welcome development spurred ironically by our generational rendezvous with mortality...
...reputation as a wordsmith, as one of the founders of punk, as a veteran artist who has had eight years to think about what she wanted to say, Smith should have been able to come up with something better than a cartoony, colonial-era take on cannibalism as a metaphor for issues of survival. Listening to such painfully out-of-touch music from Smith, as well as these other pop standouts from the past, is enough to cure the worst case of nostalgia...
Still it serves as a nice metaphor for what remains a deeper conundrum about computers: despite their growing power and ubiquity, especially in modern offices, the resulting increase in productivity is almost negligible. Tenner offers some convincing reasons why this might be so (time-consuming software upgrades; downsized secretarial pools), but no reassurance that the dilemma will ever be resolved...