Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some conservative commentators, seeking to turn the "spirited exchange" (McCain's team's characterization) into a political metaphor, said that McCain's response to Cornyn symbolizes the candidate's eagerness to push through flawed legislation (that he also wants to take all the credit for). Or, more fundamentally, it showed his willingness to do what is politically expedient, regardless of who gets knocked aside along...
...exile from Vietnam and his coming of age in America, from his essay collection “Perfume Dreams.” “His writing represents the inevitability of some form of American assimilation that, while it is still taking place, we no longer have a good metaphor for. We keep denouncing the melting pot, but something of the sort keeps going on,” said Sollors of Lam. Lam detailed his resistance to his mother’s attempts to bind him to his culture by reading letters received from relatives left behind...
...Leonard Cohen. Commendable influences to be sure, but one wonders if the College Events Board mightn’t have chosen a group with a broader fan base: Aqua, of ”Barbie Girl” fame, leaps to mind. Apparently, the eponymous doll serves as a metaphor for soulless corporate conformity, a more resonant message with Harvard’s highbrow listeners. The choice of Third Eye Blind was made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead’s “OK Computer” or the ambitious, minor...
...that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition as it struggles to break out of years of economic gloom...
...have fostered the idea that the only place for minorities in theater is outside of the mainstream. We are not eighteenth-century Britain but a diverse university community. In theater, it is long past time for all our colors to mix.” Almost a decade later, the metaphor is still stirring, but it is impossible to be sure if it is still apt—if it ever...