Word: metaphorical
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush isn't talking so gloomily because he's panicking. Greenspan hasn't let the U.S. economy so much as scrape its knee in a long, long time. The plane (sorry about changing that metaphor), which has been on a steep ascent all year, is leveling off as corrections in the markets provide a downdraft and the New Economy succumbs to a touch of jetlag. But we haven't crashed yet, and we jettisoned inflation fears over Lake Michigan sometime this fall...
Remarkably, Schrempp knew little of this. A man who constantly uses chess as a metaphor for his business drive, Schrempp craves information. Much of his comes through the executive "war room" near his office, where nuggets of intelligence about DaimlerChrysler's vast empire are constantly ingested and analyzed. But Holden had demanded and received complete autonomy when he took over Chrysler, and he used it to wall himself off from the Daimler side in Stuttgart...
...work derives its title from the symbolic figure of Orion, whose presence frames the book's namesake poem, "Midnight Salvage." The eight-section poems run through pieces of Rich's past, focusing particularly on a college life that, according to Rich, was as "a cemetery is controlled." The morbid metaphor originates in this piece, which makes backhanded allusions to John Keats and Antonio Gramsci, who are buried in the same cemetery in Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history's bloodshot...
...train wreck, and Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, who seeks Dunn out to offer an explanation for his good fortune. No mention is made of comic books or their applications to real life, which appears to be Shyamalan's thesis and purpose for making this movie, and a metaphor debated frequently throughout the film. The twist ending of this film, a trick that Shyamalan became famous for in The Sixth Sense both supports and distorts the metaphor, and leaves the viewer unsure about whether the ending is an attempt to make a profound statement or overthrow any sense...
...bastardized Latin pop. Like the BSB, the only interesting thing about Ricky's new album is the title for its first single, "She Bangs." Unfortunately, Bon Bon Ricky can't take credit for pushing the envelope-when asked to explain it, he gushes, "She bangs! It's a metaphor for the universe. You know the big bang theory? So the universe is really this 'mother universe'-she bangs, and explodes. She moves. The planets, the galaxies, are all moving. That's what it means." New rule for pop stars: Sing, Don't Speak...