Word: metaphors
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Sontag has written fiction, two plays, four films and a variety of essays. Her essays include "Illness as Metaphor," published in 1978, and "AIDS and its Metaphors," published in 1989, both of which try to create a deeper view of the concept of illness...
Graham focused her speech on the importance of improving public school education in the U.S. Using the battleship as a metaphor, she bemoaned the lack of maneuverability and flexibility of public high schools in responding to the needs of their students...
Finally, in a speech that incorporated all the themes discussed by Gates and Graham, Herschbach used the metaphor of molecules to characterize the problems in current society, and praised the contributions of science to academic and social problems...
Abakanowicz, 63, has a huge talent. Her work draws on deep wells of feeling, myth and metaphor. Its images strike to the heart, not in any sentimental way, but equally without any of the clever-clever flittering of Postmodernism. Some of her sculpture has a strong political undercurrent, not in the feeble, travestied sense of much current "political art," but in a deeper level of articulation: "My whole life," she once remarked, "has been formed and deformed by wars and revolutions of various kinds, mass hatred and mass worship." To have lived in Poland through the successive waves...
...loves series and variation. The biggest single work at Marlborough is Embryology, 1978-81 -- a whole landscape of some 600 stuffed burlap "rocks," ranging from mere pebbles to big boulders, an extraordinary array that suggests cocoons and gravid wombs as well as stones. Her chief metaphor, as Brenson (who wrote the catalogs for both shows) points out, is "the enchanted forest," which "can be traced back to animistic peoples for whom trees and forests were fearfully and delightfully alive." The tree trunk refers to, and sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into...