Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to see that the Czechs are like the Russians," his wife added, trailing off, and for the crowd the hockey games slowly but surely evolved into a metaphor for an international power struggle...
...books inspired the drawings for a Science story on black holes in September 1978. "Tool catalogues are particularly helpful," Holmes says. "An ax can be used for chopping a budget or firing Cabinet members." A glistening picture of Body Builder Arnold Schwarzenegger is kept on file to provide another metaphor. Explains Holmes: "Some day the dollar is going to have muscle again." Such imagination has not gone unnoticed by TIME'S readers. Last December a fan in Pasadena, Calif., commended Holmes' "creative outlook in communicating the vital statistics of the news" and respectfully nominated...
...Said he: "I am sure that every American would prefer to sacrifice a little gasoline rather than shed American blood to defend OPEC pipelines in the Middle East." To combat inflation, he asked for an immediate freeze on wages, prices, profits, dividends, interest rates and rents. Repeating a metaphor he had used with effect in a speech to the Democratic mid-term convention in Memphis in 1978, he concluded: "Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. Now is such a time...
...almost two decades, Albee often buried his plays under metaphor and meaning, sometimes forgetting that drama, by definition, demands a clash of living characters, as well as ideas. In The Lady from Dubuque, he has returned to the style of Virginia Woolf. This is a smaller play, shorter and less emotionally demanding. But it is a major work nonetheless, and like the enigmatic lady of the title, Albee is very much in control. - Gerald Clarke
Throughout, Beaton writes with a gift for image and metaphor. One woman has skin "as bright and smooth as the inside of a shell"; another "exudes the friendliness and sympathy of a firelit tea in winter." Virginia Woolf compared her diary to a "disheveled, rambling plant." Beaton's is more like a topiary, carefully trimmed to his own aristocratic profile. - Gerald Clarke