Word: metaphorization
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...Summers is alluding to more when invoking this metaphor...
...Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range of intimacies in a love affair. And it was surpassingly beautiful, enthralling, to watch...
...Like most great things, it couldn?t last. Hollywood stopped dancing long before it stopped singing. Directors, influenced by European films, pursued "realism" in stories, behavioral acting and sets. Who danced in real life? And who needed the dance metaphor for eroticism, now that Hollywood could show the real thing? So dance disappeared from movies ... and no no no no no, Britney Spears rotating her tush in "Crossroads" is not movie dancing...
...like some kind of second-semester medical condition. Symptoms include: anxiety, increased desire to procrastinate, dry eyes, an erratic ability to fill a page (or, ahem, a column) with utter nonsense and a heightened sensitivity in the presence of competitive fellow writers. I’m stealing this metaphor merely to elaborate upon a culture that is all too familiar to me, to my fellow thesis-patients and to the underclassmen—quarantined first-years and anxious juniors alike—who watch us groan...
...looks like a giant game of checkers, but its aficionados say it is more complicated than chess. Although players try to capture opponents' stones, the larger aim is to gain as much territory as possible. Victory requires planning and patience, which is why Go is described as a metaphor for business as well as life...