Word: metaphoritis
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...space was receding into memory by 1920. In its place grew a new myth that supplied one of the core images of American art deco: the conquest of the air, by buildings and machines -- the taming of vertical space. The aircraft, with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number 9, 1933, which was never built...
...where'd you get that ladle?" asks the One. "Oh never mind, it's your metaphor. But thanks again for the advice...
...heartbreakingly frank disclosures ever written by a painter. He categorized and cataloged his work, a habit for which art historians, wishing Cezanne had done the same, have long been grateful. And in October 1889 he summed up the relation between his paintings and his illness in one piercing metaphor: "I am feeling well just now . . . I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible -- and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness...
...basic story stems from the unlikely premise of a family plagued by an anonymous baby's telephone calls. This incessant ring-ring, goo-goo-ga-ga subsequently transforms itself into a tenuous metaphor for familial deterioration--the Goldstein clan find themselves drowning in lunacy...
...Amateur's Guide To The Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...