Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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History concentrators say a cross-cultural comparison would be beneficial...
...actually did some kind of intelligent comparison of different societies without worrying about relating them to post-modern concerns, then it would be a great service to history concentrators," said Laszlo Nagy...
...blond or brunette, tall or short, thin or heavy, daringly dressed or wearing baggy sweatpants and an extra large T-shirt--whether she is what society's conventions consider attractive or not--men will comment, stare and flirt with a persistence that makes traveling salespeople look inattentive by comparison...
...opposite fates, Celebrity, even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...
...rest of the band slowed down the joy by receding into the darker chords from "Laugh as the Sun," and built up suspense until everything exploded back into the blinding sunnyness of "Martyr" with an almost orgasmic cry of, "Hey!" Although the rest of the evening paled in comparison, the crowd stayed in a blissful state of afterglow for another...