Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when presenting the history of the Branch Davidians, the documentary does not completely condemn Koresh. Gazecki contrasts the two sects that split (one of which formed the Branch Davidians), showing the leader of the other sect as a disreputable criminal. By this comparison, Koresh seems less villainous. Even when detailing Koresh's greatest flaws, the soundtrack shifts to melancholy music that laments rather than condemns the situation...
...stories Ship Fever is good enough that she should have known better, compares Old Scores to the famous story of the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise. The parallel between the two stories is obvious--both are tales of ill-fated love affairs between teacher and student--but the comparison is specious. The passion between Abelard and Heloise has inspired great literature and art for eight centuries, but the passion between Beth Sieverdsen and Paul Ballard is just a rip-off of their love; it has produced only the disappointing Old Scores...
...robber, a disciple of the Apostle Paul in the early church, etc. One can only assume that these departures are supposed to orient Turnbull's life and ever-present death in the greater span of history--to connect his existence with others' in some all-encompassing cyclic understanding. In comparison with the use of imagination in such classic Updike as The Centaur, however, these elderly wet dreams seem positively puerile...
...comparison is unfair. Ashong describes some of his Hollywood experiences in disbeleif--like going to the Dreamworks studio and meeting Spielberg for the first time, and seeing executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Arsenio Hall strolling through...
...opinion page of a daily newspaper should be a forum for the most relevant issues of each day, and while lines at the sourcebook store may prove an inconvenience to our student body, they are of laughable import in comparison to the sometimes damaging habits of alcohol consumption at universities...