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0.11 (substitutes) in 1994
"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."
In Summer of Sam , the latest Spike Lee Joint, he substitutes panorama for point of view, piling on perspectives until the picture becomes a shambles--a Spike Lee Disjoint.
In three cases, the principal potential hazard of the substitutes is acute eye, skin and/or respiratory irritation.
Today's Papers deplores society's vapid need for ever-briefer substitutes for actually reading something.