Word: parallelisms
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Kozyrev: Talk with ((Vladimir)) Zhirinovsky and with ((Communist Party leader Gennadi)) Zyuganov. Zyuganov drew a parallel between the Partnership for Peace and Hitler's Barbarossa plan for invading Russia! That is their mentality. The alternative is clear. Their scenario is Yugoslavia: use force to crack down on republics and re-establish the empire or whatever you chose to call...
...there is an explanation for Zhirinovsky's unique appeal, perhaps it is to be found in the parallel between the young boy who grew up feeling rejected, humiliated and despised and a nation that has just emerged from seven decades of dictatorship feeling abused, deprived and defeated. Little wonder that ordinary Russians respond to this man; his feelings of persecution, which he has honed to an exquisitely raw edge, reify their own dislocated sense of what has happened to their country and their lives. And by projecting the angers and fears of his dysfunctional childhood onto the national stage, Zhirinovsky...
...after a half-hearted suicide attempt in which she swallowed 50 aspirin, Kaysen was plunked into McLean by a psychiatrist who had met her only half an hour earlier. "You need a rest," he told her, promising a stay of several weeks. Instead she spent two years in a "parallel universe," a sorority house of sorts, but with barred windows, a ban on sharp objects and constant monitoring. "We ate with plastic," writes Kaysen of McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor and eventually a self...
Charleston, South Carolina, has always been a city of two tales -- one white, the other black, running parallel, sometimes clashing but seldom touching. That is one reason why Ruthie Bolton's Gal: A True Life (Harcourt Brace; 275 pages; $19.95) is such a remarkable book, for it is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two writers -- one black and unpublished, the other white and well established. Gal is also remarkable as that one-in-a-million unsolicited manuscript that actually gets published. But most impressive is the book itself...
...highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north. In four weeks, Kim Il Sung's troops would capture Pusan, erasing the mistake their predecessors made 44 years earlier, when Northern forces failed to reach the port before U.S. reinforcements arrived to drive them back across the 38th Parallel...