Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is an uncomplicated book written by an uncomplicated man. Bakshian has taken the classic election metaphor--the candidates as horses, the journalist as oddsmaker--and stretched it, beaten it and pummelled it into submission. Throw aside the introduction and the conclusion--which is very easy to do--and you're left with a $12.95 list of the candidates and their chances for making it through the conventions alive...
Thus Stoppard's extended metaphor of the decline of England may fail to carry the evening in the Winthrop JCR, but not without several moments of high comedy along the way. In the end, it is the snappy one-liners that we have come to expect from Tom Stoppard that shine through and send us away chuckling. After all, Britannia's 3000 miles away; as Linda suggests, maybe a sudden wave of loony patriotism will put a Rule Britannia clock in every home...
...Inflation, Iran, Israel and Ineptitude." Joel McCleary, manager of Carter's New York campaign, used a homelier, back-country Georgia metaphor: "You can't pee into a hurricane...
Suicide runs through Get Happy!!, sometimes surfacing directly, always thumping as an unheard thematic backbeat, life's metaphor for despair. It's the message of "Five Gears in Reverse," shouted inside a garage, sounds like it, in a voice choked with carbon monoxide. Elvis sings...
...much for the veterans. On this year's squad, to mix a metaphor, youth springs eternal. Sands, ranked 13th nationally in the 18 and under bracket, is the highest ranked player to come to Harvard in years. Horne calls him the team's most composed player on the court, and he enjoyed the most successful western trip, finishing...