Word: metaphoritis
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...consider Walters' sadness in a way she probably did not intend. Perhaps regret should be aimed most appropriately at the way campaigns are covered by the national press corps itself. Here again the jury metaphor is apt. In an ideal world juries will always be unbiased vehicles through which the facts of the case will be transformed into an appropriate ruling. But it's a truism that this is often not the case, and the men and women who have been covering Mssrs. Mondale and Reagan are very much like a jury, with elements of judge and prosecutor thrown...
...seemed likely to overshadow ceremonies for the introduction of the new constitution. Bringing nonwhites into the government for the first time had been achieved by the ruling National Party government with difficulty, and the plan was fiercely opposed by right-wing Afrikaners. The new Parliament is itself an apt metaphor for apartheid, the official policy of separation of the races, since its three chambers are separate and unequal. The 178-member all-white House of Assembly will meet, as always, in a gracious, wood-paneled chamber. The 85 colored members of the new House of Representatives will...
...deceptive simplicity of Neil Leifer's knockout photographs is a perfect metaphor for the beauty and meaning of the Olympic Games. To the untrained eye, Leifer seemingly had only to step up and snap off a few frames to get the shots he wanted. We know better...
Rice, at least, is on track with his pretty, witty Blondel (rhymes with fondle), a fable constructed on the life of a minstrel (Paul Nicholas) in the court of King Richard I. With the twist of a political metaphor, the Lionheart turns into today's "Iron Lady" of 10 Downing Street. And in case there is any mistaking the satire, King Richard sings a brief ditty on the virtues of self-reliance whose 16 lines begin with the letters M-A-R-G-A-R-E-T THATCHER. But if the show has an angry bark, it is also...
...Vietnam has become a metaphor: the Vietnam analogy is being tossed around for every situation the United States may get involved in whether it's the Middle East--at the moment it happens to be Central America--so the question is being raised. Are we getting involved in another Vietnam?"' Karnow said recently over coffee and Gitanes in Boston...