Word: metaphoritis
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Marshall McLuhan's famous metaphor sees the world as a global village. Actually, it has become a global city, a megalopolis with some rich neighborhoods and many poor neighborhoods and some that are terribly dangerous. Unfortunately, the big city has no police department, and the neighborhoods (the former U.S.S.R., the Muslim world, South Africa) are getting more dangerous. Almost everyone agrees it is too late for military intervention in Bosnia. The place makes me think of W.B. Yeats' haunting line, "And wondered what was left for massacre to save." The place to intervene, they say, now must be in Kosovo...
...sorrowing Queen and her family watched the flames consume the halls and treasures of Windsor Castle last week, it seemed a cruel metaphor for the events of this past year. Britain's House of Windsor is under fire in 1992 as + it has not been since 1936, the year Edward VIII abdicated the throne. The notion of the family monarchy, a Victorian-era invention that accorded a symbolic and public role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able...
That kick was a metaphor for the entire year--a fact not lost upon junior quarterback Mike Giardi...
Shabazz buttressed her call for continued action with a metaphor of her husband's. "If someone puts a butcher knife into my back ten inches deep and pulls it out seven inches, that's not progress," she said. "When he pulls it out completely and the healing starts, that's progress...
...This election symbolizes the death of Alex P. Keaton as the metaphor of our generation," saidHarmon. "For the first time since 18-year-oldswere given the right to vote, Democrats have won aconvincing victory...