Word: metaphoritis
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...existential plane like Camus the killer whale... Now, when the Patriots' offensive line is providing about as much protection as Los Alamos security guards, Jesse Ventura's image handlers, and Condy Rice at a presidential geography quiz, when this whole f---ing quarter has been a savage and sarcastic metaphor for American culture that's so mind-bendingly verbose I can't even begin to delineate it, can we as a country really be expected to believe that the ghost of Tom Landry isn't retching on his overshoes, tearing his hair out by the fistfuls and slouching slowly toward...
...their careers. And the game's mysterious allure runs deep. "Cricket will survive," says Fathers. "For people who can appreciate a game that lasts five days and still ends in a draw, the fascination will always be there. Some cricket writers believe that's because the game is a metaphor for life, in which not everyone can be a winner but nor do they have to be losers - they can live a decent life and come out with an honorable draw...
...investment banker. Five years later, I know for sure that I despise investment banking. For me, Harvard was like a poorly made drink in that I felt good about it only after I was done with it. Why not? I didn't give the bartender (stay with my metaphor here) enough proportion guidance...
...phone mishaps of teenagers aren't a bad way for two fathers to start a conversation intended to patch up their differences. But the missed message also turns out to be the operative metaphor for the Bush-McCain rapprochement. In the two months since Bush knocked McCain out of the primaries, relations between the victor and the vanquished have been awkward and tense, with anonymous aides trading acerbic barbs in the press. By the time the two men met in the Westin William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., last Tuesday, negotiations had been going on for so long--practically since...
...performer what's interesting is to think "if Hamlet were alive today, who would he be?". Let's say he's the son of the CEO of Time Warner, you've got millions of dollars at your hands, and everyone wants you to go into big business. The metaphor is very easily adaptable. In Denmark, Hamlet's being shoved into war, they want him to lead a country into a battle, and he's not interested. I think all that is very, very relevant. Who is Opheila now, what would she wear? It makes you experience her dilemma...