Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ashen-faced Stockman called a press conference and announced that he had offered the President his resignation but that Reagan had refused it. With uncharacteristic humility, the budget director apologized publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he said, had given him a verbal thrashing. "My visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the President was more in the nature of a visit in the woodshed after supper," Stockman said. "He was not happy about the way this has developed-and properly...
...image from the travel brochure that still rings true, an apt metaphor for a region blessed by God and not yet ruined by man, is the sturdy mangrove. It is found nowhere in the U.S. but Florida. With its gnarled roots stretching down into salty water that would kill most other plants, the mangrove traps silt, shelters wildlife and otherwise improves whatever it touches. Through boom and bust, hurricanes and real estate development, the mangrove has stood its ground. South Floridians surely will too. ? By James Kelly. Reported by Bernard Diederich and William McWhirter/Miami...
...Best and the Brightest, his magnificent study of how arrogance bred disaster in Vietnam, and The Powers That Be, his un-magnificent but still good investigation of the modern media empires. To his credit, Halberstam realizes that basketball, for all its symbolic and actual importance, is not the metaphor for contemporary America. Halberstam's humility, at least about his subject, comes as a welcome surprise...
Breaks does have the occasional (and perhaps inevitable) excess, the overripe prose, the gimpy metaphor, the Jabbar-sized sentence. An example: "Indeed, Paxson, who was white, looked like the star of a new television sit-com about a healthy happy-go lucky midwestern college student who was always trying to borrow his parents' car and getting into trouble, but the kind of trouble that is easily rectified. (That is, no hard drugs.)" The book definitely suffers, too, for its lack of photographs, which would have helped in keeping the many names straight...
...Trojan Horse metaphor is apt. This is an administration engaged in a far-reaching war against the great mass of the American people in an effort to aid the wealthy. So far, bamboozelement--the extraordinary ability of our president to get millions of Americans to send telegrams, for instance--has enticed the mass to fight against its own interests. Now they must turn to face Reagan and the battle must be joined. Stockman's candor, like one loose thread in a beautiful sweater, provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry that have characterized the administration's program...