Word: metaphoric
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...Zuckerberg’s essay reveal (besides the fact he took geekiness to a whole new level)? Expos preceptor Elizabeth L. Greenspan offers the following critique of Zuckerberg’s essay: “Zuckerberg seems to be offering up ‘fencing’ as a metaphor for himself, that Zuckerberg is–or imagines himself to be–‘both social and sport, mental and athletic, and controlled yet sometimes undisciplined,’” says Greenspan in an e-mail. Interesting. But apparently ineffective: Greenspan adds that...
...sometimes overestimates the maturity level of its audience. Towards the end of the film, Hoffman gently explains the concept of death to Portman by discussing the stage directions at the close of “King Lear”: “There’s no fanfare, no metaphor...just ‘he dies’...And we are sad not because of those words, but because of the story that comes before those words. But then we must let the next story begin.” Though poignant, the reference is unnecessarily complex by G-rating standards...
...allcandidates embrace themetaphor of politics as war. Dennis Kucinich, for example. But Rudy Giuliani is always up for a fight. The lights and the television sets go on at 3:30 most mornings in the headquarters of the former New York City mayor, thanks to a former Bush White House aide named Kathryn Grosso. As war-room manager, she monitors the buzz, and the buzz starts early. "We never know what the news cycle is going to bring," she says. "It always keeps you on your toes." Surrounded by other staffers, volunteers and orders from Chipotle, Grosso tunes...
...operation: thinning, mildewed carpet; litter from sign-painting parties; recycling boxes full of canvassing tally sheets and empty Miller Lite cartons. But the deepening clutter hasn't covered up all the traces of what the building used to be: a hockey rink, which could hardly be a more fitting metaphor for a political contest that is suddenly getting a lot rougher. The old Dr Pepper scoreboard is still on the wall, but the largely twentysomething crew at Obama Central has another way of measuring the team's progress. Staffers ring a silver bellhop bell whenever an organizer signs...
...Annenberg Foundation has given the museum funding to study engineering and begin design of Koons' dangling Train, according to Govan, who is already calling the artwork his town square's campanile. "What a metaphor," says LACMA trustee Lynda Resnick, "for the way the West is chugging forth into the new millennium...