Word: metaphorization
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...Cambridge July, the Harvard-Radcliffe 2006 Summer Theatre Company opened their three-show program with Clark Gesner’s famous Broadway adaptation of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts.” As the songs and scenes pass seamlessly by, the revival becomes a superb metaphor for a Harvard summer: while playful, young, and confident, it still manages to ask unanswerable questions with colorful hints of philosophical depth. For this reason, it was unfortunate to see some empty seats in the audience. Apparently, there are only a handful of unsold tickets left before the last performance...
...news hit hard at CIA. It soon became a metaphor, a Chinese box displaying the dilemmas of the "war on terror." The Saudis - like the Pakistanis, the Yemenis, the Sudanese and so many "dark side" states allied with the United States in the battle - had a way of often disappointing America. Beneath the warm handshakes and affectionate words, there was always that nugget of distrust. Were our interests truly aligned? What were they telling us; what were they withholding? All were ruled by dictators, who, necessarily, view power and their own self-preservation in ways that differ from a democracy...
...steel and concrete as metaphor - tied, on one shoreline, to a truce struck between the Saudi ruling family and religious traditionalists in the kingdom. The Sauds get virtually limitless wealth, a healthy chunk of which they share with their dour clerical partners and their Wahhabist accountants. In exchange, the royals receive a stamp of religious approval, as the true protectors of the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina, as well as an understanding that 25,000 or so members of the royal family can do, more or less, anything they please, while the country's 27 million citizens live under...
Mark Warner kept referring to the party he threw last weekend for the attendees of the Yearly Kos convention as the "first date" between the presumptive Presidential candidate and the liberal blogosphere. It was perhaps a infelicitous metaphor, given both the seediness of Las Vegas and the ridiculous excess of the party itself. Reportedly thrown at a cost of $50,000, the gathering made the observation floor of the Stratosphere hotel positively groan from the weight of the sushi tables, ice sculptures and open bars. There was a Blues Brothers cover band (if it is possible to cover a cover...
...Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation...