Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muffled lives explode in such understatements. Jhabvala adopts the identities of characters from an alien culture without romanticizing or condescending. Her spare prose leaves little room for metaphor; her India emerges out of small specifics, accretions that summon up heat, hope, squalor and a vast expanse of sky. These stories do not demystify India; they pay the place tributes of empathy and grace...
...pregnant?" The Saatchis aroused London's sleepy advertising industry with ads that ran the gamut from funny to blunt to dazzling. Their celebrated 90-sec. TV spot for British Airways seemed to show the entire island of Manhattan coming in for a landing at London's Heathrow Airport, a metaphor for the millions of passengers that the airline carries across the Atlantic...
After Billy ends the affair-- to borrow from Colwin's belatedly accurate title--a marvelous thing happens. "You're my child substitute," Billy had told her lover. Now she gives birth to a son, replacing metaphor with life. Love, no longer a dance, no longer a word game, connects to the rest of life and death and takes on the weight of destiny. As the blood flows, bringing little William into the world, Colwin does not abandon her chosen theme; she movingly fulfills...
That play was a good metaphor for the game: Harvard wasn't always pretty, but--in the end--it won. Crimson 4, Judges 3 at Soldiers Field...
Outsiders seem to buy the scholar-athlete myth. A March 31 story in The New York Times on the NCAA men's ice hockey final used an extended David vs. Goliath metaphor to praise Harvard's noble effort...