Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the rest of the working wounded, sick writers can turn their health problems into therapeutic books. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor undoubtedly helped her and thousands of readers deal with cancer. William Styron's Darkness Visible benefited its author as well as others torpedoed by depression...
...there's no worse fate than "hauling grease from the grease pits," we are given up to the fantastical premise that while this world's continuity is tenuous at best, word and image are nevertheless inexorably linked. The ways in which Levine and his crew convey and actualize metaphor on stage are striking and, perhaps most importantly, watchable in the extreme...
...speech at Harvard on Thursday night, Katz condemned the use of the Holocaust as a metaphor for other instances of inhumanity...
Masanori Fujimori, a former IBM software engineer, thinks the metaphor is apt. He left IBM two years ago to launch a firm that produces software for multimedia. Cruising the Internet has been good for his business, with newfound friends in the field passing along specialized software tools and lining up profitable interviews for him with U.S. entertainment-industry figures. Now, in a small, smoke-filled room in Kawasaki, Fujimori is at his keyboard nearly around the clock. ``By meeting other people on the Internet,'' he says, ``you find out who you really are.'' For Japan's multimedia industry, that search...
...pieces of the exhibit. Despite her African and American heritage, Lewis chose to work in the distinctly European genre of neoclassical sculpture, a fact that the exhibit tries to play up. Similarly, a marginalized artist's interest in a patriarchal icon like Longfellow is intended to serve as a metaphor for the difficulty of communication between members of a society polarized by racial and gender issues. In the grand scheme of "Images and Identities," Edmonia Lewis is seen not as an artist, but as a symbol. The subtle condescension towards Lewis is one of the exhibit's central flaws...