Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perrotta's novel Election, a scathing satire of American politics packaged in the metaphor of a high school election, is the inspiration for Alexander Payne's new film starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. The film has opened to phenomenal reviews and is poised to be one of the summer sleepers at the box office...
...children, The Giving Tree is a metaphor for unrequited parental love. For adults, it has been interpreted as a everything from a religious parable to a cynical look at adulthood. A symposium on the book was held in 1995, where distinguished scholars debated the book's underlying meaning...
...self-realization through work, Stevens entered another phase in which she merged visual and literary artistry into her paintings. "Sea of Words" is one product of her experimentation. Four faceless women are presented in skiffs, struggling against a blur of repeated words accented in gold and white lettering a metaphor for women activists who are struggling to go somewhere, to achieve some goal. According to Stevens, using words is like employing "another tool, another color." Indeed, this method works well. The combination of visual and literary elements had a phenomenal impact on me, as I found the painting...
...void emptier even than art. Describing an image in a Arachne's web, Hollander claims "That image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice in attempts to locate truth and the perfect language...
McCaffrey, whose tenure as the "national drug czar" began in 1996, focused his speech on the changes in attitude that the country must go through in continuing to combat drugs. He said he was concerned by the oft-used metaphor of a "war on drugs...