Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winglike arms. Playing the duplicitous Neapolitan servant Scapino involves at least as much acrobatics as acting. At one point he keels over from the edge of a 10-ft. platform, grabs onto a hanging rope just before his feet leave the edge, and continues his dialogue suspended in perfect parallel to the floor, belly up and legs languidly crossed...
...something less than a honeymoon for his new wife Nancy. Like her husband, she was constantly shadowed by a hovering clutch of Secret Service men on the breathless course from Algeria to Egypt to Jordan, and back and forth between Syria and Israel. One of the agents even swam parallel with her, stroke for stroke, when she came down to the pool from the sixth-floor apartment that she and her husband occupied at Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
...evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences...
While the editorial "Unending Terror" appearing in this left-hand column is substantially valid, it is objectionable to present the Palestinian raid on Maalot and the Israeli bombing of Lebanon as parallel acts of terrorism without distinguishing between them. The Israeli action was wrong both morally and tactically, but it was directed at preventing future massacres of Israeli civilians, and its stated goal was to strike at terrorist bases and not at civilians. Though this does not justify the air raids, it differentiates them from the Palestinian attack, the clear thrust of which was at civilians--in this case, mostly...
Again drawing on the parallel between Mr. Shockley's invitation and Mr. Richardson's, one has to wonder how substantial The Crimson's grounds for rescinding the Class Day committee's invitation are. In each case, it has been a matter of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. While it is difficult to do, I can understand why The Crimson might have called for the withdrawal of Mr. Shockley's invitation on humanitarian grounds, but any such action on the invitation of Mr. Richardson can only be purely political...