Word: paralleling
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...Earlier this week, a security alert left thousands of Israelis stuck for hours at military roadblocks or remaining indoors (an ironic parallel with Palestinian life on the West Bank). The security clampdown worked, that day, and the terror suspects apparently left the area. But media commentators noted that even when the terror is foiled, Israelis pay a heavy price. And the same region went back on full alert Thursday...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization...
...white photos, one of Julia's family before she moved to the U.S., the other of teenage Andy, both hand-colored by Julia in a style that resembles Warhol's technique, Bycko says. In another exhibit, a greeting card with a picture of the Last Supper, Julia used long parallel stitches to highlight the robes of Jesus and some of the Apostles. A pen-and-ink drawing of a messenger angel she drew on a Christmas card has been reproduced by the museum as a chandelier...
...obscure origins and shameless pursuit of the rich and powerful, was never to be one. And yet, as Ridley capably demonstrates, the marriage survived through numerous lengthy separations and intense extramarital relationships. Divorce was less common then than now, and it suited both partners to live their lives in parallel compartments. Architecture kept Ned, sane and he "poured his imagination and emotion into other people's houses." Emily spent most of her life in a cocoon of mysticism and fashionable causes and in writing thousands of letters to her absent husband. In the end these letters, and the replies...
...Golden Sea's riches are hazardous to harvest. The crabs' breeding and feeding grounds are in waters that are claimed by both South and North Korea, and are also filled with warships. South Korean fishermen aren't supposed to cross the so-called Red Limit Line, which runs parallel to the ocean border of North Korea, creating a five-kilometer "no fishing" zone. But sometimes they do: the residents of Yeonpyeong Island consider the Golden Sea to be part of their birthright and they view the Red Limit Line as political claptrap. "It's absolutely meaningless when we are fishing...