Word: metaphoric
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...general themes: anxiety, ostracism, lost relationships, trouble at work and difficulty in getting adequate health insurance. The stigma long attached to cancer is only slightly diminished in the age of AIDS. Cancer is to the 20th century what tuberculosis was to the 19th, wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family but not to the victim, as if giving breath...
Tsongas' befuddlement over his schedule can serve as a metaphor for the plight of his underfunded and ill-organized campaign as it struggles to transform New Hampshire hoopla into a full-throated national crusade. But the where-am-I-going question is also an apt shorthand for the unpredictable Democratic race itself, a bizarre contest that has made political pundits look as reliable as racetrack touts...
...Peebles leaves Sweetback, metaphor for the "Black Community," no one to depend upon but himself--and the protagonist seems to prefer it that way. He is the original tough, self-reliant, badass Black...
...served no food and were forced to take notes on speeches that were barely audible from such a distance. "It was humiliating," recalls Robertson. She called the balcony "one of the ugliest symbols of discrimination against women to be found in the world of journalism. [And] it was a metaphor for what working women everywhere faced...
Sunday's program, Ellis said, will examine the American auto-mobile industry, using it as a metaphor for the U.S. economy...