Word: paralleling
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...Fairweather some of his own ambivalence about the art world. (Stevenson's 2000 show, "Call Me Immendorff," skewered the champagne lifestyle of the German painter who visited Auckland in 1987.) Before his project was finished, some wealthy German patrons offered to purchase The Gift. Stevenson began to see another parallel with Fairweather, whose raft was divided up and used by Roti Islanders as household utensils. "I was interested in the crossover (with) the situation being offered to me by this group of collectors," he recalls...
...target date set last year by the U.S. When she met with TIME, Rice argued against focusing solely on the rising death toll. "It's a lot easier to see the violence and suicide bombing than to see the rather quiet political progress that's going on in parallel," she says...
...months saw Blair’s sweeping reelection, a solidly performing British economy, the beginning of the British presidency of the European Union, the G8 summit at Gleneagles, and finally, the announcement of the 2012 London Olympics. Commentators wonder whether the attacks will afford the mandate for invasive legislation parallel to the U.S. Patriot Act, or perhaps instead, whether they will warrant the development of a supranational police and security force shared by the countries of the European Union...
You’ve probably never heard of Barrie. The capital of Southern Ontario’s cottage country has a population of 125,000 and is largely undistinguished among the hundreds of other communities of its size that dot the landscape just north of the 49th parallel. Except that tomorrow, Barrie will host Canada’s Live 8 concert, featuring performances by Bryan Adams, Céline Dion, Gordon Lightfoot, the Barenaked Ladies, and the Tragically Hip, among others...
...across them by a wind like the hem of a woman's slip. Rain-shagged sheep, mops with four legs, pursue their ridiculous business of all-day eating. On this field over a thousand years ago, an assembly of all Iceland sat down to keep the peace. The obvious parallel pops up: many chieftains then, two chieftains now, striving for balance and order so the world does not run to ruin. It is a tradition in Iceland, this striving for equilibrium. The sagas, crazy as they got, almost always wound up with heroes mending relations after a series of bloody...