Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since coming to Harvard, Clemens and O'Neill have implemented a complex defense that is almost Byzantine in comparison to Colgate's basic alignment...
...comparison to the $7000 a year we're paying to come here, the $30 is inconsequential when you're taking away a major service," he said...
...daughter Maria Burton and 22-year-old son Christopher Wilding grace pages six and seven. They were photographed by Firooz Zahedi, with whom young Christopher plans to open a photography studio soon in New York. Both of Taylor's children are good-looking, both seem deliberately posed to provoke comparison with Beautiful Mama, yet neither has much sparkle. While this may be simply the fault of the portraits, it also seems to reflect an editorial theme of the magazine; a theme very evident as a succession of movie stars and bright men-and women-about-town are drawn into long...
...cover story was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, with accompanying pieces by Associate Editors James Atwater and Frank Merrick. For Magnuson, who wrote much of our Watergate coverage, it was not a welcome task. "Any comparison between Bert Lance's troubles and the enormity of Watergate is ridiculous," he says. "But I'm getting a little tired of writing about guys in trouble...
...techniques. Using legend and the tradition of black oral history, she traces a family from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement-from slavery in the South, to farming in Pennsylvania, to middle-class respectability in a Midwestern town. Song of Solomon will inevitably be compared with Roots. But any comparison must end with the superior quality of Morrison's imagination and prose. Her fictional family is stuck with the portentous name of Dead, the result of an error at the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia in 1869. "The man behind the desk was drunk," explains...