Word: metaphors
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From Greg's work schedule, Nicole divines the only metaphor she can for her current existence: "a never-ending weekday with no Saturday night." There are meetings with lawyers, unreturned calls to charities and memorial services for Greg's colleagues. (In Greg's lunch club alone, only 3 of 8 survived the attacks.) Nearly 500 condolence cards need answering--some from people who met Greg just briefly in a four-day management seminar in August, one from a grade-school classmate recounting how Greg owned the first skateboard on the block. When she comes up for air, Nicole calls...
...Boucher was introducing her and bit her lip when he stepped in to field tough questions. "Out of the box" is the explanation throughout the building for how the new undersecretary approaches her job, as her staff seeks to shield her from a "media buzzsaw" that might take as metaphor her dropping a syllable from Islamabad and her comment that a 30% conversion rate for Muslims is a "sales curve any corporation would envy." They insist that Beers is a quick study who should not be judged yet. Impressions of America that took hundreds of years to form will take...
...easily belong in an adult collection. One of the biggest names in children's literature, Maurice Sendak, contributes "Cereal Baby Keller," which begins, "Josh and Irene Keller, after horrendous effort produced, finally, a baby Keller." After this nod to reproduction issues the story turns into a new-parent anxiety metaphor. But for kids it's about a big baby who eats everything, including his folks...
...perfect way to emphasize the concurrent story lines. "There is something going on at every moment," Hopkins says. "We wanted to show the connection between people and each one in their own environment." Like Web pages or the headline "crawls" on cable-news screens, the device is a visual metaphor for busyness, implying that the program is too bursting with action for one screen to contain. It's drama for the age of information overload...
Kesey intends the injustice of the hospital’s bureaucracy to serve as a metaphor for the oppressive American sytem. Nurse Ratched, the head of the ward, is the epitome of strict, mindless ruling. She is challenged by the arrival of Randall Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy, who advocates revolution and butts heads with the authority of Nurse Ratched, points out the injustice of the institution. He leads the group of patients, which consists of varying temperaments and levels of sanity, to the realization that they do not have to stand for the ill treatment they receive. Chief Bromden, the half...