Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AIDS and Its Metaphors, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in January, examines the way the epidemic is thought about and discussed. She conceived it as a sequel to Illness As Metaphor, the 1978 work that emerged from her experience with breast cancer, a mastectomy and years of chemotherapy. The earlier book, by tracing myths that had attached themselves to tuberculosis and cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about...
...compromised, homogenized, packaged or roughed up. And Thailand has certainly been industrious in marketing its smiles. By now, 77 companies offer hill-tribe treks in Chiangmai alone, and Pattaya, a quiet fishing village just two decades ago, is a bloated red-light area studded with 256 hotels. Indeed, the metaphor of selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women in Bangkok alone respond to the siren call of a business that goes hand-in-hand with tourism. And the get-rich-quick promise that tourists embody has also...
...story of Ms.'s decline from feminist orthodoxy is an unhappy metaphor for the image of women in 1988--it is a story of business and money (or lack thereof), of waning interest in the women's movement and of new symbols that imprison women in much the same way that the "happy housewife" stereotype did in the 1950s...
...were wasted by Gilbert. Foreign-owned shoe and clothing factories that had been lured to Jamaica's tax-free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind and rain. It was easy to see a metaphor of the island's economy in the plight of the smashed Kingston bank whose checks, in the aftermath, were suddenly caught up in a wind and scattered all over the downtown. "There were checks blowing around everywhere," retired Superstar Racing-Car Driver Jackie Stewart told the Miami News after weathering...
...special section a special look, Ferrer called on Deputy Art Director Arthur Hochstein, who began experimenting with designs in July. Late last week, as he labored over the final layouts for the project, a harried Hochstein described his state of mind by reaching for -- what else? -- an Olympics metaphor. "I am on the last lap of my own marathon," he said. We're happy to report that he finished with a flourish...