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...term “cougar” cannot even claim originality as its saving grace. Feline metaphors??fox, puma, pussy—have long been applied to female sexuality. “Cougar” is merely the latest epithet in a long tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next...
...construct a framework in which truth or “lifeness” can occur. With his “Godlike powers of omniscience,” the novelist is able to outwit convention and makes his work approach the truth. The truth can come out in surprising metaphors??the French writer Celine “shocks us out of the familiar by likening rush hour in Paris to catastrophe”—or with details and characters that remind us of our surroundings. It’s an insightful recipe for literature, enchanting...
...some such hippie nonsense. But this is just a metaphor for metaphors?? sake. It doesn’t give you a deeper understanding of the situation than if it had been said straight...
...Woodlock, himself a former assistant U.S. attorney, appeared nonplussed, scoffing at Bloom’s “tennis metaphors?? and ordering the government to make written settlement demands to Harvard and Shleifer by this Thursday. The two defendants, in turn, must respond with counteroffers by the end of the month...
Lewis observed in a February memorandum addressed to Kirby that “many internal observers of the Harvard scene” employ “hydraulic and mechanical metaphors?? to explain how students’ energies should be focused on academics...
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