Word: metaphores
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...drug bill. When public opinion polls showed rising concern over drugs, both Senate and House members wanted to pass new laws that would sweep "crack" off the streets and help the legislators keep their seats in November. "This is war," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott, using the preferred metaphor. But war is expensive, and as much as the lawmakers wanted to go to battle, they could not find...
...York, and he wants to have Charley indicted for his sixth-to-last murder. Maerose, a more serious troublemaker, wants to take over her grandfather's operation. As usual with the author's recent entertainments, the fact that none of this makes much sense becomes a literary metaphor on the order of Melville's white whale, implying as it does that the entire world is nuts. This is clearly Condon's view, and he is mightily persuasive as he defines human character: foaming perversity, rascality, obsessional lunacy, wowserism, religious mania, assault and battery, and our old friends greed and lust...
...onward, it seemed that every mayor, museum director and chairman of the board in the Western world had simultaneously agreed that a Moore work was the only possible solution to the problem of how to relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus buildings with an organic metaphor, how to dress up a civic space without commemorating anything in particular. At the same time, people in the street found that his work spoke to them in a way that some dull tangle of official I beams could...
...book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow or on the road, this has always been a risky business. The author's father once blamed...
After the first four and one-half billion years, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould took over, saying, "Geological time is so immense we can only grasp it in metaphor...