Word: dissimilarly
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King is not the first to turn his fiction over to the echo chamber of pop culture. Writers as dissimilar as Thomas Pynchon and Donald Barthelme have toyed for years with the mass-produced icons that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village...
...random housing lottery, administrators agree, would successfully bring those dissimilar shoulders together. None worry that a random lottery would significantly impede the support services provided for minority groups by Houses in which they are heavily represented; after all, all Houses would contain minorities in proportions mirroring those in the University community. Besides, support structures, in the form of non-House groups and activities, would remain. Most acknowledge, too, that truly random assignment of rooming groups would be administratively simpler and less susceptible to fraud...
Still, as dissimilar as Venus is from earth, scientists see its history as a cautionary tale. They warn that if carbon dioxide continues to build up in the earth's atmosphere as rapidly as it has in the past few decades from burning wood and fossil fuels, the atmosphere will become increasingly like that of Venus. Sunlight will still beat down through the atmosphere, but the CO2 will block heat from radiating back into space, raising global temperatures, melting polar ice and flooding coastal cities...
...Ghosts in the Machine, as the title implies, lets weird, ethereal, and blaring mechanical spirits defuse and diffuse all this. Change is not harmful in the music business; on the contrary, it can be as important as any lyrical or rhythmic talent. The Talking Heads have put out four dissimilar, yet nearly perfect, albums. The Police's first real experiment in four albums reeks of disaster, reflecting something about the popularity of globalism...
...also a classic match-up of dissimilar fighting styles: Leonard the boxer, elegant, fast, an artist who can devise dazzling combinations for every contingency; and Hearns the slugger, a tall (6 ft. 1 in., vs. Leonard's 5 ft. 10 in.) and haughty hitter who uses a preternatural 78-in. reach to keep trouble at bay until he can lower the boom. Each man had earned a welterweight (141 to 147 Ibs.) championship belt: Leonard from the World Boxing Council (WBC), Hearns from the World Boxing Association (WBA). So when it was over, halfway through the 14th round...