Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first is the inevitable college comparison conversation, of course. We talk about our campus social scene, popular things to do and places to hang out at school and amount of work and degree of difficulty...
...zero in on their thrillingly cold target. As is often true in James, we witness a battle that can have no victors. Dr. Austin Sloper (Philip Bosco) is a wealthy widower whose earnest daughter Catherine (Cherry Jones) pales beside his resplendent memories of his wife (who, to make the comparison all the more pointed and painful, died giving birth to Catherine). Reared in an atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that "no one has ever loved me in my life." When love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney...
Herschbach closes the program with a wish list for future develop- ,ments in chemistry, including new forms ofcarbon and a method to fix damaged genes. He drawsa comparison between chemistry and Aladdin'sgenie...
...course, there is no comparison to the "Cheek to Cheek" number in the dazzling "Top Hat" (1935). Ginger Rogers appears in a silky, white, floor-length dress; Astaire sweeps her onto the floor and they dance into heaven, as the song says...
While the comparison might be a little premature, Gretzky's lacrosse equivalent may be junior Mike Eckert of the Harvard men's lacrosse team...