Word: metaphoritis
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...first book, “Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion,” Matory posits ideas that challenge many of the popularly-held Western conceptions of gender. For instance, he shows that the Yoruba women of southwest Nigeria are simultaneously wives and husbands...
Gross once said that freshman life in the Yard is like being surrounded by a “moat,” a metaphor that indicates the physical and psychological separation between freshmen and upperclassmen...
...fascinating patterns of ever-increasing complexity with his fingers on the table. He speaks for two reasons. The first is to contradict (and, recently, to express contrition), usually beginning with “Let me just say that…” and often devolving into an economics metaphor. The second is as chair, where he employs a unique insensitivity to parliamentary procedure. Summers’ poor grasp of the rules has caused such confusion that votes on simple matters with unanimous consensus—like adjournment—have turned out wrong and required a revote...
Luckily, Burton got a second chance to make an impression on the world's ears. Damon Albarn, the singer-songwriter behind the acclaimed British band Blur and the multiplatinum rap-rock concoction Gorillaz, heard The Grey Album and liked it. "But I loved the metaphor," says Albarn, "the mixing of genres and the idea that you can take past and present and make something futuristic." Albarn summoned Burton to London and quickly hired him to produce Gorillaz's second album, Demon Days, out this week. Albarn says he and Burton had "loads of music" in common. They are also both...
...Atari. Reference points from rock, rap, dance, dub and world music pop up and disappear again, blending until Demon Days feels like a unified theory of music (even if it never generates anything so rigorous or fussy as an actual theory). Burton says he hopes he gave Albarn "the metaphor he wanted." He did, and it's even better than his joke...