Word: metaphores
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...inseparable from the decadence of paths, spaces, ivy, walking; these in turn are bound up in the spirit of freedom and reverence that inform our very notions of academicity. And the illusion of natural permanence--of living structures which surpass us in height, breadth and reach--is itself a metaphor vital to the structure of the university...
Thus the strange inaccessibility of blackboard fragments: Slavic grammar left from a previous class, six contextual uses of "tre," metaphor underlined six times, the outlines of tensor products hidden beneath organic compounds. Who is to say what these meant to the people in the room before us? The blackboard, unlike a book, rarely contains an explanation of its own context; its fragments are as foreign to the observer as pieces of a telephone conversation caught in an instance of crossed lines. (It is a small part of the pantomime...
...world leaders could support such a cumbersome metaphor, but Clinton is no ordinary man. Comedians will soon have to build their own Clinton Presidential Library just to catalog the thousands upon thousands of joke variations made possible by his two terms. He made our job so easy it was a challenge not to feel irrelevant...
...Bush isn't talking so gloomily because he's panicking. Greenspan hasn't let the U.S. economy so much as scrape its knee in a long, long time. The plane (sorry about changing that metaphor), which has been on a steep ascent all year, is leveling off as corrections in the markets provide a downdraft and the New Economy succumbs to a touch of jetlag. But we haven't crashed yet, and we jettisoned inflation fears over Lake Michigan sometime this fall...
Remarkably, Schrempp knew little of this. A man who constantly uses chess as a metaphor for his business drive, Schrempp craves information. Much of his comes through the executive "war room" near his office, where nuggets of intelligence about DaimlerChrysler's vast empire are constantly ingested and analyzed. But Holden had demanded and received complete autonomy when he took over Chrysler, and he used it to wall himself off from the Daimler side in Stuttgart...