Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...techno-cowboy's metaphor that borders on the kinky...
Lessons drawn from unique circumstances are usually wrong, but in the case of Iran the impulse to understand what has happened to the U.S. in the past 14½ months may offer the only way out of a blind rage. Blindness has been a metaphor throughout. The U.S. was blind not to see the extent and temper of the Iranian revolution against the Shah; blind fanatics seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran; the Ayatullah Khomeini's blind sense of vengeance sanctioned the seizure; and the hostages suffered their own blindness, held in solitary and the dark. All year long...
...will know the local office of hell.' " Those who prefer the unexamined aphorism may choose: "The bitter discovery that God does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise." Devotees of the mixed metaphor will prize: "Riding on this illusion you hurled yourself against the windmills of your chosen dragon." Although Fallaci's junta villains are as gross as editorial cartoons, it is difficult to separate dragon, windmills and Quixote. For throughout this catalogue of misery, Fallaci never makes the right choice. When the account needs historical...
Another group offers methodological criticisms of sociobiology. In particular, they question Wilson's reliance on analogy and metaphor, his speculations on human prehistory, and even his postulation of selective advantages for types of human behavior, such as aggression or homosexuality, which they regard as arbitrary and invalid categories...
...Establishment was dominated by a formalist view that took it as gospel that art should be "self-defining"-so that painting must eliminate every attribute not unique to painting, and sculpture likewise to sculpture. To this Establishment Nevelson seemed impure to the point of sloppiness and her love of metaphor and allusion quite improper. Nor did it help that she was a woman. Thus, in one of the most celebrated curatorial blunders in recent memory, she was left out of a vast survey show intended to define all that had been important in U.S. art since the war, "New York...