Word: dissimilarity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sustaining that kind of songwriting over such a long string of records must involve far more mental work than the finished products show; it reminds me of Superman's party trick of turning lumps of coal into diamonds. The Dentists' powers aren't dissimilar; they are using the normal musical fuels-four boys, no girls, two guitars, verse/ chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ verse/ chorus, two or three riffs per song, and one memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials...
...Museum between Fog and Peabody, and it was recommended that the Semitic Museum be "sold" to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had flatly refused to continue to pay the large deficits of the Museum--a situation not dissimilar to the present crisis--and the matter was resolved finally through the intervention of an Advisory Committee and President Pusey's agreement to refurbish the Museum's basement from University funds making it fit for research collections, and to "rent" the upper floors of the Museum building to the Center...
...Korot is in love with faces, and she gives each one a chance to shine. The dark, committed faces of Jerusalem -- so alike and yet so dissimilar, and each so convinced of its beliefs -- stand in stark contrast to the sunny, open, uncomplicated American visages of the third act. An American, the sculptor Richard Serra, says blithely, "Abraham Lincoln High School, 'High on the hilltop midst sand and sea' -- that's about as far as I trace Abraham." Coming as it does after two acts of religious zealotry, the comment expresses a contemporary, secular kind of cultural truth -- Who cares...
...rise of two or more dissimilar types of HIV could explain why AIDS did not explode among heterosexuals in the U.S. and Europe, yet spread rapidly among men and women in Africa and parts of Asia. HIV has still not evolved in the industrialized world into a form that is easily transmitted by heterosexual activity. But it probably will, given the virus' proven ability to mutate. "Over time, in the U.S., more and more strains will adapt to become more efficient at heterosexual transmission," Essex says. "So far, there haven't been a critical number of people infected heterosexually...
...OFTEN COMPARE PAINTers with writers, because of the apples-and- oranges problem of imagining links between dissimilar arts. But in the case of Rembrandt van Rijn you can, and the temptation to do it, if not carried too far, can hardly be resisted. He was the Shakespeare of 17th century painting, even more so than Nicolas Poussin was the Milton...