Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...estate agents in SOHO. Neil has to keep the news on all the time because he says, "I don't want to be the last person in the city, watching the cartoon channel, while everybody else's being evacuated." Inwardly disturbed but outwardly cool, 9/11 New York becomes a metaphor for the lives of the four friends...
...bullet-riddled slur plastered over the track, flow has never mattered less in hip-hop. 50’s skills don’t matter—indeed, they seem impossible to gauge—and the beat hardly needs to try. It’s a suitable metaphor for the idea that hip-hop, at least the way we know it now, has few places left to go. Maybe that’s why Tim says he’s tired—not just bored, but completely run down by the music...
...whether there ought to be some education facility, particularly a school, around which the campus would center,” Gardner said. “Should we simply have a bunch of buildings that are connected, or should we have something else that’s a central metaphor for the school, like a school itself? That’s been where there’s no consensus...
...assemblage of breasts, legs and buttocks--but also leads to a dependency on visual imagery for arousal. "Men become like computers, unable to be stimulated by the human beings beside them," he says. "The image of a lonely, isolated man masturbating to his computer is the Willy Loman metaphor of our decade...
...Apprentice is a love letter from Burnett--a naturalized American from Britain--to Yankee capitalism. "The whole world takes America's charity," he says, "and that money is created through entrepreneurs." Survivor, with its tension between group effort and look-out-for-number-onemanship, has always been a metaphor for the corporate jungle. The Apprentice uses the business world as a metaphor for that metaphor. (Lest anyone miss the comparison, Trump says ad nauseam on the show and in our interview that New York City is "the real jungle...