Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though I tried to remain awake after reading such tales, I felt an overpowering anomalous drowsiness quite akin to being sated with green chartreuse. Once asleep, I found myself again in the cemetery. A minatory wind scuttled through the silent tombstones, and Charonian shadows leapt and grimaced with unspeakable frenzy. What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh...
...jawed resemblance to the cartoon character, was too much for the real-life sailors from Navy. Though off his customary dodging, quick-cutting form, the wiry (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) Thomas scored one goal, set up four others and scooped up twelve ground balls-a skill roughly akin to recovering a fumble in a free-swinging football pileup. Backed by Goalie Les Matthews, who made twelve saves, and Defenseman Jim Ferguson, who meted out his share of bruises, the Blue Jays outlasted the midshipmen 12-7 to register their ninth consecutive victory...
Lanford Wilson, 37, clearly hopes to be a dramatist of this latter school, but at present he lacks the specific gravity for it. He is more akin to the Saroyan who wrote lines like "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds?" He is also prey to Saroyan's easy sentimentality and that boozy euphoria that permits Saroyan's characters to bite on the nail of life and declare it to be a nougat...
...terse, apocalyptic remarks with which soap opera segments end in mystery. The one-upmanship of the two suitors in their fight for Rosalie is the organizing theme of the early scenes. The camera reveals Cesar and David through her eyes, as she makes mental comparisons, and the tension is akin to that which accompanies long-winded introductions at championship fights. In this corner, the brusque and straightforward color of Upward Mobility. In the other, the precious and enigmatic allure of Aesthetic Sensibility...
...they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra is somewhat akin to the famous repetitive "Jesus prayer" of Eastern Orthodoxy...