Word: parallelisms
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...both with garlands around their necks, to me it's very poignant about an era of two different choices about how you foster democracy but starting off with such hope and promise. I didn't realize when I started the book, how closely the two things were going to parallel, but essentially Johnson's presidency is destroyed over Vietnam, and to have him essentially give up and King killed in the same week, you know, I think history itself is telling us these are parallel stories. You put these two stories together and try to examine Vietnam and the Civil...
...appropriately sparse dialogue. Its lazy passage of time illuminates the characters’ cyclical misery as well. The plot jumps from year to year without the use of intertitles, as if the pain of Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis’ (Heath Ledger) thwarted love exists on a continuum parallel to the emptiness of the Western skylines that dominate the film. If “Brokeback Mountain” says anything about rural America, it shows us that the dusty landscapes are crammed with repression and fear. Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Hathaway, and Dawson’s Creek starlet Michelle Williams...
These anecdotes are taken from Erich Segal’s novel “The Class,” which follows five Harvard undergraduates in the years 1954-1958. I find little need to explain the parallel of these stories to our lives as Harvard undergrads today...
This time of year, the interestsof Hollywood folks travel on parallel tracks: totting up the blockbusters and anticipating the Oscars. Start with the money. The year's top-grossing films in North American release were two sequels (the sixth Star Wars, the fourth Harry Potter) and a remake (War of the Worlds). Another remake (King Kong) may join their ranks. Stay tuned for more of the depressing same...
...Bauer says that "no information would indicate" Alpizar had any terrorist connections. But authorities plan to explore that possibility as the post-shooting investigation goes forward. "There will be two parallel investigations," he says. "First, the shooting will be investigated by Miami-Dade homicide investigators. Second, the FBI and federal air marshals are investigating whether this has any national security concern. Right now there's nothing to indicate any national security concern...