Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relax," said Harvard Coach Tim Murphy. "We're becoming a very, very solid football team. Last year, by comparison though, at times we were a dominant football team. We play very hard and we don't ever have the luxury of relaxing...
...Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province in the U.S.; the CIA puts the undocumented influx at 100,000 a year. (In comparison, the 1990 U.S. Census estimates there are 2.3 million American residents of Chinese origin.) What is certain is that for reasons both global and local, the illegals, their transporters and their employers are forgoing the boomtowns of the West Coast and homing in on New York City...
...brief, because of the value of comparison. Australia was the last, and North America the second to last, of the habitable continents to be colonized by Europeans sharing what was essentially a common art tradition. Both continents in the 19th century were still largely wilderness. So how did the painting of wilderness, and of its ordering, play out in both places? What kinds of values were assigned to landscape by the respective artists? What images arose from the colonists' desire to claim the land, to "humanize" it, to put their stamp on it? How did the white invaders...
...prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted sea cliffs of Cape Schanck to the Australian Alps. These mountains are low in comparison to Bierstadt's Rockies, but Von Guerard memorably recorded what he saw from the 7,000-ft. summit of the tallest of them, in North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko, 1863. It is not, as Bierstadt's mountains tended to be, a made-up scene, and those...
...movie seems to want to characterize him. While Dussander, with a grey beard and wire-rimmed glasses, is a picture a masculine restraint, this man, with bald head and flabby features, sobbing hopelessly at the horror of it all, is portrayed as a mere child by comparison. It is this sort of portrayal that makes Apt Pupil a movie unforgettable and unforgivable...