Word: metaphor
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...Lurie often mentions Lang's reticence. She had a noncommittal way of referring to herself and others. If she was asked to describe a person, their name was about all that could be coaxed out of her. A feeling of coldness turns up often as a metaphor in Lang's writing, and it implies that the distance she keeps, her frigidity, is a way of defending her independence...
Said Trans World Airlines Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., in a burst of metaphor mixing: "The current regulatory system has served this country well, and before we play Russian roulette with it, we should make doubly sure that the cure proposed is not worse than the disease." The Air Transport Association, meeting in Washington, called the President's proposals "misconceived...
These measures have done little to assuage the growing anger of many American women, who look upon the rape problem not as one feminist cause among many, but as a metaphor for all suffering at the hands of men. Some women wear CASTRATE RAPISTS buttons. In Florida this year, feminists tracked and beat up a rape suspect who allegedly preyed on lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing...
...organize against capital, nor has their education given them more humanistic values than their less-educated blue collar counterparts. The threat of further downward mobility has thrown students back to a petit bourgeois outlook. At more exclusive colleges like Harvard, the "new mood on campus" stands as a polite metaphor for a new isolation and an increased competition for the few types of work that are still independent...
...seems to have settled on the automobile metaphor as the primary archetype of Jersey adolescence--after all, exhaust fumes probably account for his vocal grittiness. Songs like "Thunder Road" rumble, muffler-less, with pounding guitars and bass...