Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THIS TIME, A PRESIDENTIAL RACE needs a working metaphor, a compass for the voters to steer by. In 1988 we got "competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both...
...considers himself a materialist, if in a "thin" sense. He presumes there is some physical explanation for subjective experience, even though he doubts that the human brain--or mind, or whatever--can ever grasp it. Nevertheless, McGinn doesn't laugh at people who take the water-into-wine metaphor more literally. "I think in a way it's legitimate to take the mystery of consciousness and convert it into a theological system. I don't do that myself, but I think in a sense it's more rational than strict materialism, because it respects the data." That is, it respects...
...star of Braveheart, praises editor Rosenblum for his "story sense," which allowed them to cut entire chunks without losing the flow. One cut: a long sequence in which the hero catches wind of a British ambush planned to take place at his wife's grave. Gibson has a graphic metaphor for experienced editors: "They're like great surgeons, able to make the right kind of adjustments in places that most of us wouldn't look for. They get into that room with a pair of scissors, cut the cancer out, slap it back together to see if it works...
...CALIF.; Artist A homeless Army veteran, he volunteers time to teach sculpture to gang members and abused children. Influenced by Warhol and Picasso, Brantley began using coat-hanger wire to create angels and other mythical beings after his paints and brushes were stolen. He regards his sculpture as a metaphor for life and his students: "I don't see these images until I use a bending and molding force, accepting all the imperfections with the perfections." 55 YEARS AGO IN TIME...
...Morissettes. One is an unruly child, another a calm "good" sister, and in the driver's seat, Morissette is also the attentive parent--one eye on the road, one eye on the rear-view mirror to keep watch over the kids. It's a charming clip and an apt metaphor for Morissette's career. As a teen star in her native Canada, she played the part of the well-behaved good sister. Now, on her U.S. debut album, Jagged Little Pill, she has transformed herself into a passionate and unruly rocker. But like the parent in the front seat, Morissette...