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Some great metaphors have come in. Writing in the May issue of Backpacker, Steve Howe told of a camping trip with an old friend he had not seen in some years: “We have lots to catch up on. Mike and his wife’ Christine, are expecting a child, ant) like most men, he feels frozen in the onrushing headlights of parenthood.’* It’s hard to beat that kind of writing.
Peter Bronson, who writes consistently great stuff for The Cincinnati Enquirer, had something to say of the acid air of Washington, D.C. In that climate, he wrote, “a steady rain of innuendo puddles up plenty of mud for slinging.”
Bill Safire, word maven for The News York Times, summed up the function of the pundit in a first-rate metaphor: “Those of us who run ouf thumbs along the cutting edge of social change^ .”
As I’ve remarked before, writing about Horrid Examples is good fum but writing about the good stuff is pure joy.Copyright
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