Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to Duster House you would find about the same. I know the ratio is parallel if not indeed higher...
...mixture does not work, partly because the historical and the personal plot lines that Vollmann imagines to be parallel simply are not. One of the former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes...
...parallel with Mexico could prove useful. Mexico, which is not notably democratic, has instituted significant reform with regard to human rights. This stemmed directly from its desire to gain entry to the lucrative North American market...
...Harper, the way the practice of literary criticism relates to contemporary culture takes on a role parallel to that played by the minority writing he discusses in Framing the Margins. Just as the discovery of fragmentation in an early work such as The Invisible Man for a reassessment of what constitutes "postmodernism" in contemporary fiction, so can all literary texts more generally be used to call our wider cultural assumptions into question...
...worst show of nepotism since the abysmal Sofia Coppolla stared in her daddy's "The Godfather: Part III" has got to be the casting of the director's wife, Madlyn. The parallel structure is nothing but kitschy and is certainly not worth her laughable performance. In her big scene in which she must grieve both the death of her father and her marriage, Ferrara must work Madlyn into a rage of frustration and abandonment. Instead she stands limp and half-heartedly bounces objects off Keitel. The audience can do nothing but laugh when she delivers her lines, addressing her husband...