Word: metaphores
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Jackie made sure the metaphor stuck. She orchestrated the images, carried by television, that made the mourning indelible. The riderless horse, the eternal flame, even her little boy's salute toward his father's casket as it passed--all were her idea. In those few days, she was, as her biographer Edward Klein put it, the art director for the entire world. She nurtured the myth of Kennedy exceptionalism until her death, vetting the work of biographers and monitoring the flow of information out of the Kennedy Library. She even sued to enjoin the publication of a book, Death...
...incident instantly became a lead television news story, another point of contention in U.S.-Japan relations, and a disturbing metaphor for how the two countries coexist. With 25,203 U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa, there is a depressing predictability to the news cycle surrounding a serviceman's being accused of raping a native woman: outrage by the Okinawans, expressed concern by the American military, formal protest by the Japanese government, and finally, an indictment and trial of another flyboy or marine...
...selling 1999 book Raising Cain, will publish Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, in which he warns parents against spoiling their children either materially or emotionally, against trying to make kids' lives perfect. Using the body's immune system as a metaphor, Kindlon argues, "The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always assumed...that they're entitled and that life should...
...repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour one December day in 1960, by the R&B singer Ben E. King and his record producers, two Jewish hepcats named Mike Leiber and Jerry Stoller...
...Press. Organizations, they say, can suffer from "organizational ADD," an increased likelihood of missing key information when making decisions and a decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan, any executive who is drowning in e-mail, voice mail, instant messages, pager messages, faxes and cell-phone calls will find this book thought provoking. --By Andrea Sachs...