Word: parallelling
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...widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy. Not the president of America’s most prestigious universities. I don’t see evidence of that kind of frenzy and fanaticism here. It seems to be an entirely ungrounded parallel...
...researchers could also tell that Kennewick Man had been buried parallel to the Columbia, with his left side toward the water: the bones were abraded on that side by water that eroded the bank and eventually dumped him out. It probably happened no more than six months before he was discovered, says team member Thomas Stafford, a research geochemist based in Lafayette, Colo. "It wouldn't have been as much as a year," he says. "The bones would have been more widely dispersed...
...every segment. Gondry, the crazy auteur of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” filmed this just months before Chappelle bugged out and headed for South Africa, leaving behind his mega-successful “Chappelle’s Show.” Running parallel to Chapelle’s concert footage are scenes of him wandering around Dayton giving out tickets, jamming, and relaxing with his musical friends backstage. Interspersed with the film’s good vibes are brilliantly incisive commentary of modern America’s flaws and hypocrisies by Dave Chappelle...
...fact, the parallel gets a bit more eerie, when you consider that both Cornell and Harvard dropped a road contest followed by a heartbreaking Friday night home loss to Princeton and a double-digit defeat at the hands of Penn to fall back to .500. The Crimson added to its troubles by getting swept at home by Brown and Yale the following weekend, and now the Big Red has the opportunity to do the same...
...much as Harvard coach Frank Sullivan and his players wanted to distance themselves from it, the current collapse draws an eerie parallel to the one that happened three seasons ago. The Crimson started out 10-5 and 2-0 in the Ivy League in both years, but after losing a few close games early, the team went in the tank. The 2002-2003 squad won two of its final 12 games. This year’s team has won two of its last eight and has just four more chances to make a move from shockingly similar to just somewhat...