Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been a showboater; Bowles was forever modest. One of his prep-school teachers stuck a note in his school file praising his respectful manners with a prescient metaphor: "When you're in a duck blind with him and he shoots the bird out from under you, he will make you feel like it was your shot at the bird...
...buzz ROBERT SEIDMAN, NetGuide: "MSN uses the television metaphor to organize its service, where everything's a channel or a program. It makes MSN extremely easy to navigate and lets the service take advantage of new technologies like Java and ActiveX...
...fascinated by the notion that people who were supposed to be coddled and secure were facing imminent doom. "They thought they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over 2 1/2 miles of water...It's a metaphor for the inevitability of death. We're all on the Titanic." Maybe so, but at the moment executives at Fox and Paramount are probably feeling it more than the rest...
...METAPHOR-TOO-FAR AWARD: A bridge to the past...to the 21st century...to higher taxes and more teenage drug use...Whatever...
...benefit was Helprin. He had the simple man from Russell describing "the heart of cities" looking from space "like strings of sparkling diamonds," and alluding to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched the ground. Then Dole was trapped by that bridge metaphor. It was hardly out of Dole's mouth before Clinton made it a two-way span, with himself poised at the last exit before the 21st century. Dole meanwhile was left behind in a horse and buggy on a rickety wooden model. Most people just wanted to make a U-turn...