Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back," he says. [TIME used its own interpreters.] The average monthly wage is 600 renminbi, or $73. The company provides meals and living quarters in spartan although adequate dorm rooms that sleep 12 and offer individual storage closets and ceiling fans for the summer. In Vietnam, by comparison, the minimum wage is $40 a month, and workers must pay for such accommodations...
...Buenoano, who poisoned her husband, drowned her paralyzed son and tried to kill her fianc? with a car bomb, met her fate in a Flordia electric chair at 7 a.m. Monday morning. She became the first woman to be executed in the state in 150 years, but there the comparison with Karla Faye Tucker ends. Buenoano, 57, showed no remorse for her killings. Prosecutors, who gave the Black Widow her creepy-crawly nickname, say she bumped off her family for the insurance money. Like Tucker, Buenoano said she was off to ?see Jesus.? This time, neither the Pope nor Jerry...
...comparison to Hurt's astute acting,Priestley's is fair but unmemorable. He and his90210 buddies might have graduated from college,but he hasn't moved on to the next level ofacting. Ronnie's girlfriend in the movie, Audrey,played by Fiona Loewi, makes her presence known.Not only is she naturally beautiful but she playsher role with an alluring animation. She alsopresents her character with a keeness thatseparates her from the typical airhead. Gilesunderstands that she is an obstacle in his path towinning Ronnie's love. While he still retains hopethat he will succeed, we know his love will remainunrequited...
Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million...
...bizarre events of Orton's true life and death, however, pale in comparison to the plot of this fantastical play, where the line between sanity and psychosis is blotted out past all recognition. It begins with Dr. Prentice (David Waller, '00), a country-sanitarium psychiatrist who attempts to seduce his naive secretary (Kate Taylor, '01) with such subtle lines as, "Take off your stockings; I wish to see what effect your stepmother's death has had on your legs." An unexpected entrance by his nymphomaniac wife (Stephanie Smith, '98) leaves the doctor flustered and the secretary undressed. It is soon...