Word: metaphor
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...explorations are cautious but skillful. The Time of the Hero (Grove Press) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 28, a Paris-based Peruvian, is a social satire so harrowingly powerful that 1,000 copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military academy, which he attended, as a metaphor of his homeland, and in reciting what he sees as the horrors of life at school suggests what he thinks of life in Peru. More sophisticated is The Opoponax (Simon & Schuster) by France's lissome Monique Wittig, 31. A disciple of Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French fanatic whose "objective...
...them any more than a man can identify with his own X rays. Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and he made his stage all the world. With skeletal casts and bare bleak stages, today's thinking playwright invokes the world only as a metaphor of threat and dread...
...Gandhi, said Menon, had discussed India's economic problems with the U.S., and this amounted to clear evidence, in Menon's eyes, that India was falling under U.S. domination. "The day of imperialism is not yet over,'' he warned in a mad melange of metaphor. 'The empire comes in by the back door, the front door and the side door. We may worship at the shrine of nonalignment, but if we throw away the content by letting the man who pays the piper call the tune, then there will be no nonalignment...
...crisp, she's trim and she mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor...
...Broadway MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, bruises the ear and hypnotizes the eye. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company envelops the playgoer in an experience that is largely inspired sensationalism, but quintessentially theatrical...