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Arnold Metaphors
Compilation from "REFERENCES
TO ARNOLD IN EVERYDAY CULTURE" @ http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/arnold/arnoldwebpages/idiom.htm
- During the O.J. Simpson
Trial, the prosecutor says that Nicole said to O.J for the last time, “Hasta
la vista!”
- A radio announcer says
of Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, “Y’know, he’s not exactly the Arnold
Schwarzenegger of world leaders.”
- CNN announcer comments
in a story on women leaving the military college The Citadel: “Schwarzenegger
could not have lasted longer.”
- L.A. Times article on
HIV research: “Every time the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of science have the virus
in their sights for destruction...”
- A paragraph in
Electronic Engineering Times is explicit about its metaphor: "The SCSI
interface has a lot in common with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s powerful. It’s
hard to understand. And it’s terminator keeps coming back, even after you’re
sure it’s a dead issue."
- NBC News, Los Angeles,
11/10/92, In a story of the problems of Latinos having to change their names,
Elizabeth Pena says, "They were able to memorize Arnold Schwarzenegger."
- A Newsweek, 11/26/90
article on male pectoral implants states, "...maybe it's a sign of the
Schwarzeneggerization of society" (p. 72).
- In an ad for Bally's
health spa, Shari Belafonte states, "I can get on the same machine that Arnold
Schwarzenegger can get on."
- In a New York Times
review of the 1991 Grammys: "M.C. Hammer's record might be compared in quality
to an Arnold Schwarzenegger film [i.e., it is a commercial success but not a
quality production].
- The Sperminator: name
given by media to an infertility specialist in Virginia who impregnated women
with his own sperm (1993).
- At a talk in Los Angeles
on computer file recovery: "It's like Arnold Schwarzenegger —it's destroyed,
it won't be back."
- In a Los Angeles
Times (7/11/91) article on police chief Daryl Gates: "Even Arnold
Schwarzenegger pales in comparison to Gates' cybernetic tenacity."
- Robin Williams, talking
about Dr. Oliver Sacks whom he portrayed in the film Awakenings, said he was a
combination of Schweitzer and Schwarzenegger" (USAir Magazine, March
1991, p. 52).
- In an L.A. Reader
headline (7/12/91) about the attempts to oust Los Angeles chief of police
Daryl gates: "Terminating the Terminator."
- Robin Williams, in an ad
for the movie Toys, calls himself the "Toyminator."
- In a Newsweek article on
who the Democrats will pick for their presidential nominee, Michael McCurry
laments that "Arnold Schwarzenegger is taken" (7/22/91, p. 23).
- In an L.A. Times
articles on an Olympic weightlifting hopeful, the large man is said to "dwarf
Schwarzenegger" (7/20/91, p. C1).
- Los Angeles Times
Magazine: "The Dodge Viper is the Arnold Schwarzenegger of sports cars"
9/8/91, p. 46).
- On the television show
Law and Order, it was commented that you would have to be Arnold
Schwarzenegger to pick up a big piece of equipment" (10/91).
- In a Los Angeles
Times editorial about former Klansmen turned politician David Duke: "David
Duke transforms himself from klan wizard to racial moderate and champion of
the dispossessed as easily as Arnold Schwarzenegger's evil 'Terminator'
metamorphoses into a noble android in 'Terminator II'" (11/3/91, p. M2).
- Los Angeles Times
article on the Landers
earthquake described on man's home as looking like "it had been trashed in
a 'Terminator' movie" (6/29/92, p. A7).
- In two children's
videos, one on construction equipment and one on trucks, powerful machines are
given an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent.
- Campaigning for
president, Bill Clinton called a George Bush's administrator, "The Terminator"
because he ended jobs and then added that we don't need a Terminator 2
(10/25/92).
- "The Terminator of
telecommunications is the automated telephone dialer" (New York Times
editorial, 11/5/92, p. A1).
- In a statement at a
Congressional hearing on medical fraud: "It's like sending Bambi out to meet
the Terminator" (7/19/94).
- On the Today
show, the father of one of the hostages taken in Iraq comments that if he were
Arnold Schwarzenegger, he would go in himself to rescue the hostage (7/17/95).
- "I'll have the
Schwarzenegger du jour," actor Peter Ustinov is quoted as saying in a New York
restaurant. He was not referring to a real menu item but used Arnold's name as
a code for "Austrian mussels, glazed to perfection" (Newsday 4/25/91,
p. 79).
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