Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, Julie Johnson is an intense drama in which even pauses and silences are emotionally charged. Two parallel glimpses of the title character isolated in her own home--first as she alone weeps crouching on the floor of her living room, and then again, just as alone surrounded by her children and best friend--reveals a moving psychological portrait of a working woman...
...predicament, in fact, is one for which I can think of no precedent or parallel. Trained for 18 years in the intricacies of Tibetan Buddhist metaphysics, one of the most accomplished philosophers in his tradition has spent most of the past half-century entangled in geopolitics, trying to protect and rescue his homeland from the Chinese forces that attacked in 1950 and drove him into exile nine years later. His cause is not made easier by the facts that much of the world is trying to court China, the world's largest marketplace, and that he is the guest...
This is a look into that world, a sort of parallel universe in which protecting "us" from "them" can cost "us" dearly, as Colbert--college student, aspiring FBI agent and a man free of any criminal history--was about to discover on that Friday night. Unwittingly, Colbert walked into a fiefdom commanded by a rogue cop so intimidating that he had cowed an entire neighborhood, and so clever that he had won 14 perfect job ratings in 14 years...
...parallel between Siedlecki and Murphy does not end with the Ivy League. The two coaches were both assistants at Lafayette--they even roomed together...
Harvard is involved in a parallel project, Internet 2, organized by 110 universities...