Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these questions seem trivial in comparison to confusion caused by a discovery we've made in recent viewings of the movies on video: in the entire extant Star Wars trilogy--so far as we have been able to discern--Chewbacca is the only wookie...
Rather than taking Montgomery's word as truth, I decided to see if comparison shopping really paid off. It did; I purchased Weber's book at the Harvard Book Store for less than the cost of any Coop edition...
Unfortunately, when both actors apply their abilities to Hemingway's story, the result is simple and uninteresting. What before was an intriguing story -- offering all manner of comparison-comments between Hemingway's life and what he portrayed in his writings -- now disappears in the melting goo of a basically standard wartime romance with two people no more glamorized than any other movie stars...
...story I have told about Kevin doesn't incorporate his disappointments, namely his failure to attain the external achievement that the preprofessional student body both in the '80s and today (myself included) has intensely craved. At his upcoming 15th reunion, Kevin will surely not be blind to the inevitable comparison with others in his class, his roommates (one an arbitrageur), his acting buddies, the guy down the hall, the girl from section. Will it make a difference to him whether his life lacks the traditional accoutrements of American success? If it does, will that outweigh the benefits gained by living...
...Hollywood celebrities took up the cause of movie star Scientologists like Tom Cruise and John Travolota. In full-page newspaper ads last week, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone and a host of other entertainers angrily compared the discrimination against Scientologists to Germany?s anti-semitic persecutions in the 1930s, a comparison that itself drew outraged criticism from Americans who felt it trivialized the Holocaust. For their part, German authorities claim the church is a profit-oriented enterprise opposed to democratic principals that exerts psychological pressure on its members. "We take American criticism seriously, but our special historical experience gives...