Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less complex character to portray, but Lawrence Fishburne's performances is no less believable. His dual nature as wife beater taskmaster , and needy husband are clearly conveyed. The irony of their parallel fears--his fear of his wife's success and overarching name recognition and Tina's own trepidation that come with the increasing responsibilities--is cleverly evoked through the acting, the screenplay and the director's choreography of the dialogue...
...parallel development is the attitude summed up by the words of one of our fellow students: "I'm pretty sure it's a human life, but ending abortion would have such huge consequences that it's better not to." There is a grain of truth here. Abortion has become a part of our culture. It is no longer reasonable for pro-lifers to think that reversing Rove vs. Wade will solve the abortion issue. That must be the first step, but it must be followed by broad changes in our society...
Stories make clear that Mr. McGahern is not a writer who has assembled a fixed view of the universe and packaged it for us neatly. Often the stories show lives that seem to move on parallel lines but end up in vastly different places. In "Peaches," a marriage stinks like the dead shark festering near the unnamed couple's house. They live in a universe where everthing has been decided for them, and decided badly. But in "Bank Holiday," Patrick and Mary manage to find unexpected reprieve from the routine of life, ending up "so tired and happy that...
Anthropologist Barnett, reflecting on the brokerage business, says, "You can't do it intuitively anymore." He adds, "The next generation of computer architecture, be it massively parallel programming or 64-bit addressing or hyper- or meta-computing, essentially is going to be data mining where the data will be searched in even finer granularity to discover patterns that even this generation...
...boys have been playing an even faster and bolder game, the outcome of which can affect the little guy's winnings. Much of the smart money is really riding on computer-generated, hypersophisticated financial instruments that use the public's massive bet on securities to create a parallel universe of side bets and speculative mutations so vast that the underlying $14 trillion involved is more than three times the total value of all stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a month and twice the size of the nation's gross domestic product. Collectively, these new financial instruments...