Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FINAL TOUCH Timerman tosses into his salad is the house dressing of pseudo-intellectual speak. The finest example of this blather comes when Timerman is discussing with a friend of his from Buenos Aires the friend's plans for emigrating to Israel. Drawing a parallel with Camus' Stranger. Timerman remarks when his friend tells him his mother was Christian...
Reagan's decision on the MX amounted to a broad statement of Administration nuclear-weapons policy. Said he: "I intend to search for peace along two parallel paths-deterrence and arms reductions." Reagan described U.S. military vulnerabilities in the most sweeping terms he has used to date, declaring: "In virtually every measure of military power the Soviet Union enjoys a decided advantage." There is no certain deterrence against a possible Soviet attack in such a state of imbalance, he suggested, and no incentive for the Kremlin to agree to arms reductions. The Reagan policy, in short: to rearm America...
...main ones (a parallel text, as it were) is Indian miniature painting, of which he has long been a collector. The jeweled colors and flattened space of the court miniature, the way it filters all natural detail in order to preserve it within the twining conventions of artifice, and above all the sense it provides of looking past the edge of the ordinary world into a privileged domain-all this is echoed and modified in his own small paintings...
...Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech." Nixon said, drawing a direct parallel to his closing remark at the 1982 reunion...
Most perplexing of all, the networks reached their divergent conclusions from parallel evidence: raw-vote totals, samples of key precincts and "exit polls" of people who had just voted. All three networks, moreover, found that voters were about evenly split on the President's overall merits, on the efficacy of his economic programs and on the relative importance of unemployment vs. inflation and Government spending. Where the networks parted company, and went awry, was in judging the meaning of those Polls, or perhaps in believing that any consistent meaning was to be found...