Word: parallelisms
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...over-the-top single, “North American Scum,” and its deliciously scummy space-themed music video. If you’re looking for a carefree journey to the moon, complete with a space battle, mechanical failure, and a hypnotic voyage to an autumnal parallel universe, this is the video for you. “North American Scum” begins with a vainglorious earth-bound photo shoot, followed by frontman Murphy’s opening of a door labeled “SPACE (outer),” which kicks off this epic adventure. Utilizing funky...
Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society Diana L. Eck—long a vocal observer of the review—responded that professors could conceive of “parallel ways” in which students could navigate this curriculum without taking any course in many disciplines...
...represent the struggle of all blacks in all of history. Granted, I think most would agree that a win from Obama late next year would have slightly more lasting reverberations for us all, but in the context of their individual relationships to the future history of race, the parallel exists...
...each other on the spot, eliciting laughter from the audience. Instead of setting the opera in the 18th century, director Vincent chose to set this production of “Figaro” in the 1960s. Her choice adds a layer of complexity to the work by drawing a parallel between the women’s liberation movements and the importance that the female characters have in cooking up mischief as much as men in the opera. In this update, the characters take the role of politicians, with the Count and Countess cast as the Kennedy presidential couple. Vincent alludes...
Ohio State has its Greg Oden. Syracuse had its Carmelo Anthony. Harvard had its, um, Brian Cusworth. Not a great parallel, I’ll admit, but perhaps we should be glad that the dominant player on the Crimson men’s basketball team for the majority of this season was a four-and-a-half-year senior. Our star earned his degree in biology and earned his stripes in basketball through years of improvement. Other schools perpetually renew their stars and stalwarts and head into each season with a fresh crop of highly-touted freshmen. Duke, UNC, Arizona...