Word: comparison
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...Kennedy comparison also delivers a subtle reminder that anyone can be elected president. Kennedy defied all expectations that a Catholic was unelectable; Obama wants to do the same as an African-American. Kennedy was only the second sitting U.S. Senator to be elected president; Obama would be the third. Kennedy was perceived as inexperienced; Obama actually...
Nobody came on to the movie camera - wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission - like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" for an energy that would make Rachael Ray seem logy by comparison. Film critic James Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile...
...recently saw Freedom Writers and was amazed by how small and feminine you looked in comparison to your appearance in Million Dollar Baby. How did you get rid of all that muscle? Gerardo V. Perez, MEXICO CITY...
...seen the picture at the top of this page, so you know I'm talking about Tony Soprano. I'll leave you to decide whether the comparison is insulting to that other American leader or to Tony. HBO's The Sopranos, which begins its for-real-this-time final run of nine episodes April 8 (9 p.m. E.T.), is not a straight parable of the presidency. Tony, for instance, has a rather more strict policy toward staffers who leak...
...Dutch have been coping with their low-lying location for nearly 800 years. Dutch law requires that river defenses deliver so-called 1-in-1,250 protection--that is, that they limit the odds of catastrophic system failure and consequent flooding to 1 in 1,250 years. (By comparison, New Orleans' defenses offered 1-in-100-years protection...