Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voice: "Just a Biblical metaphor for great hockey players...
...bill ($84,800,000)...to the number of cockroaches (2,000,000) estimated to be roaming around the Pentagon. Making their own contribution to the old debate over guns versus butter, the editors inform that it costs 263 pounds of butter for an M-16 rifle. Statistic has become metaphor...
...Amateur's Guide to the Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
...daughters and the invalids. Ruth (Robyn Fass) tries to escape her stifling influence by flirting with the boys at school, and Tillie, the younger daughter (Celia Wren) absorbs herself in the marvelous power of the atom, (or as she pointedly pronounces it--"a-tum") which becomes a metaphor for the potency of human relationships...
Kintaro-ame, a traditional Japanese candy cane, is a frequently used metaphor for explaining the policy views of leaders of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Snap a stick of Kintaro-ame in several places and the identical face of Kintaro, a folk hero, can be seen inside. Snap open the position papers of various L.D.P. officials, and they all look the same...