Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relentless assimilation to fervent rediscovery of old ways. Earnestly written by Sybille Pearson and meticulously staged by artistic director Gordon Davidson for Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the show stars Joseph Wiseman, Hal Linden, Christopher Collet and Fionnula Flanagan. The title refers to interrupted anecdotes that are a metaphor for how families live together yet alone. Alas, it is the sole hint of subtext amid the unpondered grit of divorce, old age and death...
...probably turn first to Clinton. Of the rationales Bush has offered for his re-election, his claim to be a change agent is laughable. But Clinton won't get his sought-after second look if Perot's savvy continues, and perhaps not even if Perot falters. The historians' favorite metaphor for Jacksonianism is the signs one still sees in the center of small towns. The arrows point to many different destinations and have but one thing in common: they all point to somewhere else. Which is what Perot represents. Since he is the "none of the above" candidate so many...
...however often he balks at the idea, Kevin has become a metaphor for literary achievement. He is the standard by which many writers in this community measure themselves. Even professors use him as a measure. One teacher in the Creative Writing Department told me, "We should all be as talented as Kevin, but we're not, so don't worry about...
...often, literature and demographics are antithetical. In literature, personal experience supercedes objective classification, and metaphor can create its own categories; the poet Sylvia Plath can write that she "may well be a Jew." But after 20 years of the Derek Bok Plan, demographics have become our university mascot. Kevin calls the new housing system "a nightmare." If the end goal of nonordered choice is a neat breakdown of quotas, Kevin questions the methods for calculating the figures. "Who do they look for in counting diversity? They can't see diversity in an artistic community or in a Black community...
...says Quist. Friendly's will do for lunch. Quist. skipped breakfast this morning and decides on what to order before I've opened my menu. Ten minutes later, Tammy brings me any hamburger and fries but keeps Anton waiting. I'm a little embarrassed by the situation, a passing metaphor for our respective home continents: he is hungry, I am not. I have food, he does not. Quist, born in Great Britain, is a citizen of Ghana, a country along the west coast of Africa...