Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing off same-sex marriage as "trendy moral relativism," Coats can easily justify denying certain citizens fundamental rights available to all other Americans. It is simple and safe to curtail a group's rights if that group is reduced to a bunch of flighty deviants who abide by a parallel and distinct version of morality. Such tactics have been used for centuries, to a far more extreme degree by slave-owners and Nazis. Both oppressor groups justified their persecution and slaughtering by reducing their respective objects of hatred to the sub-human...
...someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...
...starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other TV series, most recently as the ethical Judge Henry Bone in the acclaimed (and just canceled) Picket Fences. He remains puzzled by television...
Replay it once more. A close second to the Russians after the compulsories, the U.S. women's gymnasts had moved into first during Tuesday night's finals on the strength of six nearly flawless performances on the uneven parallel bars and another six strong ones on the balance beam. They held their own on the floor exercise, and with one event remaining, the vault, the first U.S. team gymnastics gold medal ever was all but assured, barring disaster...
...know much more now about the challenge of the parallel bars than I knew before the start of the Atlanta Games, but I do know a lot about the human spirit triumphing over adversity, both real and trumped up. I know a whole lot, for example, about Irina Scherbo, not a competitor but married to one, which is enough to make you a star in your own feature film. Irina, the wife of Belorussian Vitali Scherbo, who won six gold medals in the '92 Games, slammed into a telephone pole on her way to the hairdresser last December, splitting...