Word: paralleling
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...Flags of Our Fathers, the young servicemen depicted in the famous flag-raising photograph are sent on a bond tour to drum up money and popularity for the war. It's a pretty unsavory look at how the war was sold to the American public. Do you see a parallel to any modern-day wars here...
Well, I have the benefit that Microsoft has an amazing research group. They're seeing the latest in robotics, speech recognition and parallel computing--these dreams we've had for decades. For example, talking to the computer or having the computer have a camera where it can recognize who's there. A mirror won't just be a mirror, it will be a digital mirror where you can try out different outfits, get advice--"Hey, you don't look good today." Putting screens everywhere has a big impact...
With his books, Hall is similarly incapable of being restrained. And in an age when reports of literature's demise are a constant dirge, Hall has helped keep the novel alive with his own wildly unpredictable outpourings. From meticulously researched historical sagas to dystopian futurism (Kisses of the Enemy), parallel universes (The Last Love Story) and magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author...
What I mean is, every half an hour or so, a clanging, whistling length of rolling stock rumbles through on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that slice the park lengthwise along its shoreline side. And just up from those tracks, running parallel to them, the park is cut again by the four lanes of Elliott Avenue, one of Seattle's major arteries. Together they split the slope into three long stretches connected by a land bridge over the roadway and a steel span crossing the tracks. So this isn't just a park in the city...
Living in New Orleans - an aberration in the Red State South, a place more in touch with the Caribbean than the Heartland - can often feel like living in a parallel universe...