Word: metaphores
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...knew U.S. forces were being placed on high alert but that he would order his own military to stand down - a break from cold war tradition, when any escalation of military activity by one side was seen as a potentially hostile move by the other. "It was a metaphor for the changed nature of the relationship," says Rice. "For the next several days, it was one of the first things the President mentioned in conversation." A few months later, Putin made an extraordinary concession when he agreed to the stationing of American troops in some former Soviet republics in central...
...chilly bit of a damper on what should have been a bright day for the season's most commercially successful network: an unseasonably cold May rainstorm forced the Rockefeller Center party crew to throw up tents, as waiters continually swept away a half-inch of rainwater with brooms. (Insert metaphor for the networks vainlly trying to sweep away the tide of cable and audience fragmentation here.) Still it didn't stop your valiant reporter from rubbernecking at Ashleigh Banfield (who held court around a teensy drinks table - or was it Tina Fey?) and swiping the beef carpaccio with both fists...
...using. A professional victimologist would immediately red-pencil a statement like this one: “I think in one sense that Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” After all, Summers is Harvard’s first Jewish president, and the metaphor seems to hint at Jewish collusion and conspiracy, a lurid pact by powerful Jews to oppress minorities...
...involuntarily chaste, hooked up with four cute girls in three days last week. “I’m just emitting pheromones like a positron emitter emits positrons,” the physics concentrator mused. He was then led away to a night of passion by a positron-metaphor-loving...
...statement says that, in one way—and in one particular way only—Summers and Sharon are similar: they both have a tendency to act like a “bull in a china shop.” The comparison of Summers to Sharon is a metaphor; it is not some larger commentary on West’s political views...