Word: parallele
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...collective mind, the beatings of Rodney King and Reginald Denny have become a matched pair -- two videotaped outrages, two tests of the criminal justice system. As it emerged last week, one parallel was still to be played out. Just as in the King case, videotape evidence was supposed to make the verdict in the Denny trial a foregone conclusion. Just as in the King case, that was wrong...
Limbaugh and Stern exist in parallel universes, but in symbiosis. Stern was successfully raising the threshold of provocative radio performance for years before Limbaugh came along. And certainly Limbaugh's unbudging commitment to free speech and the free market help make Stern possible. Despite the conventional wisdom, both endure and grow in popularity, Limbaugh remarkably so: his radio audience has increased 50% in each of the past two years. Will they be hectoring and outraging all over the airwaves a decade from now? Stern is smart enough to think he won't be. Limbaugh probably will be unless he really...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...
...Sophistry, an almost random set of fashionably themed vignettes by Jonathan Marc Sherman, the teacher and student re-enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another...
...reading table with a single iris in a crystal vase. She speaks in measured and reserved tones, yet when she remembers becoming involved the theatre in Paris, she says, still enthralled by what she found there, "It was the first passion I'd seen except for religion." Suddenly their parallel searches for autonomy and self-definition leap into view...