Word: metaphoritis
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...market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
...protagonist cannot fit on the walls. Berlin itself is the great metaphor, indeed the cause, of the lack of assurance and wholeness emitted by its postwar art. No city in northern Europe, except London, is more impacted with history; at the same time, none speaks with such dreadful plainness of the fragility of historical memory. You see a featureless tract of new buildings in an American city and merely sigh with boredom; the same tract in Berlin is raised on the rubble and corpses of 1945 -- the new is also a tomb...
...They strain to adopt positions that appear to be gutsy. Richard Gephardt promotes his restrictive trade policy with the argument that a "made-in-the-U.S.A." approach will "score knockout victories again." Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want to win!" Paul Simon attempts to offset his meek image with the mantra "We need someone with the courage to do the tough things...
...Newtonian, mechanical metaphor was prevalent during the Industrial Revolution. As America was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the document, James Russell Lowell observed, "After our Constitution got fairly into working order, it really seemed as if we had invented a machine that would go of itself, and this begot a faith in our luck...
...opposite side stand "separationists," who adhere to Thomas Jefferson's famous metaphor that the Constitution built a "wall of separation between church and state" and who embrace most of the Supreme Court's establishment rulings. Exponents include many Jewish lobbies and the National Council of Churches. The 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant body, deeply split on the issue, is represented in Washington by the proseparation Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. Its leader, the Rev. James Dunn, says true faith is cheapened by "proclamation of God as the national mascot...