Word: metaphorization
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...Each Tub On Its Own Bottom’ is a vivid, but limiting, metaphor for decision making at Harvard,” he wrote yesterday in his letter. “We will not escape its limits unless our Schools and Faculties increase their willingness to transcend parochial interests in support of broader university goals...
...shot. There were the cable-news shouting sprees, most of which had to do with the public relations process-Had Cheney erred in not informing the press immediately?-rather than the substance of the case. There were the attempts to inflate the belated revelation of the accident into a metaphor for the arrogance and secrecy that have defined the Bush Administration. And yes, the Vice President's behavior did seem to be another manifestation of his well-known disdain for accountability...
...valuable metaphor emerged last week. The New York Times described the possible legal charges that could be brought in a hunting accident. "Mr. Cheney could be charged with negligence, defined as failing to understand the dangers involved and disregarding them, or recklessness, defined as understanding the dangers and disregarding them." Which is perhaps the neatest summary I've seen of the public debate surrounding the Bush Administration's war in Iraq. Absent further evidence, the Administration seems guilty of negligence-a cavalier insensitivity to the unimaginable calamities that attend the use of lethal force. And while I have little faith...
...guide, Cheney is going to pay a price for this. These kinds of accidents have a way of sticking with a politician and even if the vice president has indicated that he'll never seek office again, the birdshot episode is likely to be used by comics as a metaphor for a trigger-happy vice president who rushed us in to war-and can't shoot straight. These kinds of metaphors aren't usually fair. Gerald Ford was a talented athlete who was a star football player at the University of Michigan and coached at Yale. Still, he was lampooned...
...After he's done sending flowers and apologies to Mr. Whittington, Cheney would do well to get in on the joke before it gets him. The situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where...