Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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South Indian dosas, as addictive as crepes were in the '70s, were expertly made, the long cylinder light and delicate. A filling of potatoes, peas, and cashews, fragrant with spices, was especially good. The plain dosa seemed too plain, and a bit greasy in comparison...
...That comparison will always take place," Zinn says, "[but] it should be resisted. Take the high point of any history and then...try to measure everything against it and it will always seem too low. I don't think it makes sense to do that. It creates the wrong impression--and also is sort of discouraging...
...That's a kind of bad aspect of comparison with the '60s, the idea of activism for activism's sake," Hennefeld says. "We don't want to be associated with that...
...This comparison conjures up images of Radcliffe women adorning the study carrels in both libraries-but is a bit inaccurate since women were not allowed in until...
...Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch's universe of images. This has to be the silliest comparison since Julian Schnabel last likened himself to Picasso...