Word: metaphoritis
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...some reason, the famous first line of the novel is relegated to the second line of the film. Nevertheless, when Redford speaks, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," it becomes obvious that fishing is meant to be some kind of lyrical metaphor for life...
...SMART BOMB DOWN THE SMOKESTACK of the financial part of the Cali cartel's operations," said U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger. ! The Desert Storm terminology seemed at odds with the central metaphor of Operation Green Ice, the international drug bust that broke up the complex financial infrastructure of Colombia's premier cocaine cartel. But the effect was at least as impressive. Law-enforcement officials from the U.S. and seven other nations coordinated an assault of unprecedented depth and scope on Cali's network of money managers and distributors. At week's end, more than 165 people had been arrested...
Addiction is the operative metaphor here. Obviously, money spent on the military, as much as $10 trillion over the duration of the cold war, was money not spent on developing new technologies for consumer use, on retraining workers for domestic production or on social-welfare programs to ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high...
...Aristotle says that you can't teach metaphor," Nagy says. "Well, you can't teach it, but you can show it, and you can invite people to try to see examples...
...comes with the annual YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL, which has drawn on thousands of writers 18 and younger and given the best an off-Broadway showcase. This year's cleverest premise comes from Aurorae Khoo. Her rap poem The P.C. (for politically correct) Laundromat substitutes for the melting pot the metaphor of the washing machine, where whites and colors fare best when separate. Joanna Norland's Mothers Have Nine Lives wryly contrasts the joys of playing mommy as a child with the discontents of the real thing. The deftest storyteller is Robert Levy, whose Mrs. Neuberger's Dead sends up young...