Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other heavyweights were involved in the project. Associate Editor J.D. Reed (220 Ibs.) prepared for his Stallone interviews by watching some 30 hours of Hollywood fight movies. Says Reed: "Boxing is used as a metaphor for exertion. After watching those movies, I felt like I'd gone 15 rounds with the film business." Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka talked to Stallone twice-in New York and with his wife Sasha in their West Coast home. Recalls Dutka: "I was immediately struck by Stallone's intelligence and capacity for self-mockery." Sportswriter Tom Callahan (210 Ibs.) and Reporter-Researcher Jamie...
That De Chirico was a poet, and a great one, is not in dispute. He could condense voluminous feeling through metaphor and association. One can try to dissect these magical nodes of experience, yet not find what makes them cohere...
...Hearts and Minds"), and his technique in Hometown draws on this video background. The book consists of several contiguous but not exactly connected vignettes: a high school basketball game, a murder and subsequent trial, a bitter strike, a hot rumor. These usually fascinating little dramas, it seems, are metaphors for life in Hamilton, which is, in turn, a metaphor for life in these United States Sort of a little far removed...
...agonizing story of Sam Shie, a man persecuted viciously for a "crime" that probably never even happened, splits Hamilton down the middle, and seems (yet again) a metaphor for the divisions that have made Hamilton an unhappy place for so long. The people of Hamilton, says Davis, all live within little cocoons within the larger cocoon of Hamilton itself, unwilling to understand the feelings and aspirations of their neighbors. With no help from a newspaper that "exemplified the lack of communication among the sum of Hamilton's parts," the people wander in a stratified world that defies the much-loved...
...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...