Word: metaphors
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...Listwin remembers the day in November 2000 when his company's bloodletting went from metaphor to messy reality. The CEO of cell-phone-software maker Openwave had seen his firm's stock plunge more than a third in a single week, and he was about to address jittery investors. But some jagged hardware on a conference table ripped the pants of his $3,000 Brioni suit--and that wasn't all. As Listwin put his hand to his hip pocket, he found it covered in blood. Now he has those torn pants framed on the wall opposite his desk. THROUGH...
Like most other prosecutors, Earle often sees himself as an advocate--for his constituents, for the state, for crime victims. Because of their role, prosecutors tend to be portrayed in popular culture as modern-day knights. But Earle has come to prefer another metaphor. "I'm the gatekeeper," he says. "I don't dare ask my boss, the public, to sit in judgment of somebody that I don't think deserves to die. That's why they elect me, to exercise that judgment and not bother them." Buried in that philosophy is something radical--the notion that the jury system...
...Fuji TV producer and Bayside creator Kameyama argues that Japanese viewers already get plenty of fantasy from Hollywood and are hungry for domestic productions in which they can see reflections of their own lives and experiences. That's why the whole Bayside Shakedown universe was designed as a metaphor for Japan, Inc. "We wanted to depict the daily struggles that average salarymen and office ladies face every day," he says. "We simply transferred it to a police setting." This approach also makes abundant financial sense, adds leading man Oda: "There is no way we can compete with Hollywood budgets...
...ideals: "Tyranny is so generally established in the rest of the world that the prospect of an asylum in America for those who love liberty gives general joy, and our cause is esteemed the cause of all mankind." He ended by echoing the shining "city upon a hill" metaphor used by the great American exceptionalists from John Winthrop to Ronald Reagan. "We are fighting for the dignity and happiness of human nature," he proclaimed. "Glorious it is for the Americans to be called by Providence to this post of honor...
...polls show the public behind him, President Bush is far from happy about the squalls building up across the Atlantic, which could soon bring storms to Washington. This week he lashed out at what he called "revisionist historians" questioning the administration's case for war in Iraq. The metaphor was an unfortunate one for Bush, in the sense that revisionist historians are those that reinterpret evidence to challenge existing judgements on history - but in the case of Iraq's alleged WMD, the problem is that the evidence on which the administration's case was based has either failed to materialize...