Word: metaphorizes
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Weakest part of the magazine is the poetry. Only Anne Tolstol's "Carmel" is free from banality and fuzziness. "The Neurotic" is overloaded with the cliches of modern poetry, while "Autumn," a quatrain, consists of what seems to be an inaccurate metaphor. "Carmel," a delicate landscape in verse, has an effortless meter, and is one of the most rewarding pieces recently seen in local publications...
Said one top G.O.P. congressional leader, pulling a twist of metaphor from his pocket and biting off a big chaw: "The President has been having a great time twisting our tails, and now by God we're going to do some twisting on his. Let's see him take it a while and see how he likes it. We've got some pretty good ones cranked up and we're going to belt him with them before the session is over...
General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth." The conference, said the Paris independent Combat, "failed beyond all expectations, and since much was not expected, it would be sheer folly to express the slightest optimism...
Threshold of Silence. All the great creators are lonely travelers. For their vocation and their plight, one of the loneliest frontiers of modern science-jet propulsion-has found an accurate metaphor. They are commissioned (but at their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced...
...Enough. In Denver, a spring-fevered columnist tested an old metaphor, concluded that it takes a roll of exactly 158 one-dollar bills to choke a horse...