Word: comparison
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There are years when fashion is alive with a sort of electric promise, when each collection is a wildly inventive and witty romp through the wonder of clothing and last year’s styles by comparison seem frumpy and full of odd, useless accoutrements—such as shoulder pads. This year is not one of those years. This year in fact makes last year seem like a glistening beacon of originality, and leggings a glorious flattering invention (I know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre...
...says Dr. Joshua Freedman, one of the neuroscientists involved in the study, triggered nerve activity in the ventral striatum, or the reward and satisfaction areas of the brain - those areas that are known to be involved in making associations and forming connections with people or things. (By comparison, over 50% of last year 's Super Bowl ads activated these regions.) The majority of this year 's commercials, on the other hand, predominantly activated anxiety regions of the brain, centered around the amygdala, the hub of our fear and emotional responses. "To me, that means these ads are going...
...firing on all cylinders.”MICHIGAN 5, HARVARD 2Coming into Ann Arbor after just one match, Harvard knew its learning curve would have to be exceptionally steep if they hoped to upset the surging and perennially talented Michigan squad.While the Crimson did improve by comparison to its previous match, it was overpowered early by the Wolverines, and could not pick up momentum fast enough to put a real scare into Big Blue.“There was significant improvement on the night before,” Fish said, “but [Michigan] was whole different level...
...down with his overwhelming spirit? Now you’ve got something.And this idea is not a new one. This very paper almost two years called for a mascot, following the Harvard/Yale game of 2005—the greatest playing of the Game ever.So maybe my experience pales in comparison to the Greatest Game. So what? That Blue Devil was so cool. We need something cool like that. But way, way cooler.Let me be the first to start the debate. Let me be the founder of the great mascot rally of our time. I will begin at the beginning?...
...horror, the horror to be so white-hot they will cauterize and heal the wounds of war, and singe everyone's soul in the process. Well, not quite, but Platoon is still the most impressive movie to deal with the fighting in Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now was, by comparison, all machismo and mysticism; Stone's film is a document written in blood that after almost 20 years, refuses...