Word: metaphors
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...Other participants agreed with the film’s focus on the need to improve the legal system. “It’s not just these two cases,” said Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. “They are a metaphor for a flawed system.” Ogletree is also the director of the law school’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the narrator of the film. Derrick Z. Jackson, a panelist and op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe, said he agreed with...
...asks most prospects to drop by and play him whatever songs they've been writing. This eliminates most applicants. Few pop musicians, it turns out, are used to regular writing, and even fewer show enough promise in their songs to interest him. "One of Rick's favorite phrases is 'metaphor deficient,'" says Rock. "If people write things that are metaphor deficient, even he can't help them...
...buzzier, less stuffy bar. Its small-plates menu includes clever interpretations of traditional dishes; try Ramsay's BLT - bacon and onion cream, chilled lettuce velouté and tomato gelée in a martini glass. Come to think of it, it's a good metaphor for the hotel - a playful, beautiful twist on the time-honored. In other words, it's very London. www.thelondonnyc.com
...close this window" button. If your desktop is overcrowded with windows, you can hit an icon that will line them all up for you, tilted at an angle, so you can pluck out the one that you need. Nice - but at the same time, it breaks with the visual metaphor of a flat desktop...
...screen of consciousness. What it means, according to a theory by Crick and his collaborator Christof Koch, is that consciousness resides only in the "higher" parts of the brain that are connected to circuits for emotion and decision making, just what one would expect from the blackboard metaphor...