Word: metaphor
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...gruesome murder, with details of the victim and perpetrator withheld. It soon develops that both must be part of the triangle, but Brett defines his characters so that any combination of killer and prey seems possible. That is a neat trick, but it is also a persuasive metaphor for Brett's underlying theme: that most of mankind is tortured by dark impulses and that chance plays a major role in determining which people actually commit crimes...
...Japan to the West. A murderous barber and his woman companion who cooks the victims in pies. A bitter show-biz story of financial rise and moral fall--told chronologically backwards. The ruin of marriages. The disappointments of infidelity. The decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence...
...Computers are more than a metaphor of mind," said Allen Newall, a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh...
Using computers as a metaphor for the brain rather than making a more direct comparison underestimates the importance computers can have in our understanding of human intelligence, Newall explained to an almost capacity crowd in Boylston Auditorium...
...sweep of what we can do with a computer is continuing to expand. That's odd for a technology," said Newall, differentiating computers from other technologies which man has used as a metaphor for the mind...