Word: paralleling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cambridge ordinance is simply an attempt to circumvent state marriage laws," he said. "It's clearly just trying to set up a gay parallel marriage...
...Prime Minister. If you are planning on becoming a political refugee, I encourage you to take a close look at the passionately political country that you'd be fleeing to. The move, I think, would be more of a culture shock than many would believe, and the parallel elections provide some insights into the differences between the two countries...
...decade of crucial change in American popular culture. Rock 'n' roll, lurid comic books, the Beats, Brando, teenage-werewolf movies and the mainstreaming of black performers signaled a transformation from old to young, smooth to raw, upper-class to underclass. But there was another '50s culture that ran parallel to this one, sometimes interacting with it but often commenting skeptically on it. One culture was hot and angry, the other cool and comic. One was the geyser, exploding with sexuality; the other the mainstream, flowing unroiled. One was radical, the other liberal. And if the cool, liberal mainstream...
...aspect of this album is how it intertwines with House of Leaves, the book written by Poe's brother Mark Z. Danielewski that was last year's literary sensation. Her blue-haired sibling says Poe's music is in no way a soundtrack for the book, but rather a parallel view of the same history. House of Leaves tells of a family whose house is five-sixteenths of an inch longer on the inside than on the outside. The house also contains a dark abyss into which people disappear for days. The eventual breakdown of the family reflects Danielewski...
...bizarre enthusiasm for these things, said that just as the World Series is settled in seven games, he wished that Bush and Gore could have four more debates. I worry about Brokaw. I wished, on the contrary, that the candidates could follow Wiesel's formula - that in some redeeming, parallel world, they could sit down together and set their minds to the intelligent, disinterested exploration of some matter outside the ambit of their disfiguring and depthless political ambitions...