Word: microcosmes
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...writer-performer understands that a movie company working in the Third World is a colonial microcosm. Its technology is imperious in its imperatives; its largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails...
...There aren’t formulas there, either,” Mancall said. “Students are assigned to entryways more or less randomly, in the hope that we create a microcosm of the college as a whole...
...season’s opening weekend in Southern California proved to be a microcosm of the puzzle that was the Crimson’s season. After winning its first two encounters, Harvard was mercy-ruled in its next two against weak competition...
Brentwood Flats is a microcosm. In one case, a buyer paid $745,000 for a humble 70-year-old, three-bedroom house in 2003. It was promptly ripped down, and 18 months later the two-story, five-bedroom Italian villa erected in its place sold for $2.7 million. Around the corner, one lot has changed hands three times in four years. Its original two-bedroom Southern Colonial went for $567,000 in 2000; the four-bedroom traditional that replaced it brought more than $2 million last August...
...game that may well turn out to be a microcosm of the Crimson’s season, the first game of the Saturday double-header with Princeton featured inspired play and went right down to the wire...