Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cataplexy-a sadistic punishment that might have been designed for the ninth circle of Dante's hell-threatens to become a metaphor for the condition of humor in the 1970s. At the moment, the silent absence of laughter is deafening, though the will to laugh is agonizingly there. Where are the wits of yesterday? The game is a humiliation to play...
Help wanted: a '70s version of humorist to save the '70s version of prig. This once and future humorist may already be present. Imprisoned inside every prig, a comedian is signaling wildly to get out. And that, finally, is the metaphor of cataplexy...
More than any of the artists involved. Peter Hutchinson, 40, and Dennis Oppenheim, 31, use nature in a metaphorical way to reveal something fundamental about the nature of all things. For Hutchinson, the metaphor is one of change, evolution, growth, a way to demonstrate that life developed from inorganic matter. For Oppenheim, ecological art is a way of interrupting the matrix that he sees shaping both natural and human activities...
Rose is in earnest about his good and evil. Taking Alan as his instance, he persuades the reader to see demonology as a metaphor of adolescence. At the turning of the teens, Rose suggests, a child is taken over by conflicting identities-opposing demons fighting for dominance. Furthermore, Rose hints, pointing at the papas and mamas, the middle-aged American, too, is still waiting for a demon to put a blaze in his heart and a fever in his imagination and lead him through some mind-blowing rites of passage...
...Hoxworth feuds with a polyglut of races while his pineapple princess (Geraldine Chaplin) goes quietly mad. Every time the pace slackens, which is often, someone goes to sea, either to pick up field hands or to transport lepers to Molokai. The incessant ebb and flow is intended as a metaphor for the turbulent tides of Hawaiian life. But the real metaphor here is the pineapple, which in the good old gangster days was a synonym for bomb...