Word: parallelling
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Watching the temperature mount in the Potomac Valley, one can see an instructive parallel from more than a century ago, when the South's General Robert E. Lee turned his forces east toward Gettysburg. In his great string of victories, Lee had almost always chosen the ground and the time of battle. But at Gettysburg he found his enemy there ahead of him and in the best position. Lee's stubbornness and his belief in his cause led him to attack despite the caution of those who wanted to slip away and fight the battle on their terms...
Malcolm evidently thinks a great deal of Canada's more than 25 million citizens, and he has fashioned a compelling portrait of them. That is a major feat, considering that Canada is so often taken for granted, especially by Americans. In fact, the 49th parallel is like no other border in the world: some 70 million people casually cross it every year, and at any one time each winter, roughly 4% of the Canadian population is living in Florida. Canada and the U.S. share everything from electrical power networks to deep ties of blood and marriage. What could be left...
...Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...
Playing off the idea that the line between comedy and tragedy is hair thin, Melinda and Melinda tells two parallel stories of one neurotic woman, Melinda. The formal agenda is augmented by a framing device wherein dapper middle-aged New York playwrights enjoy a leisurely lunch and, in the course of discussing the two genres, ad lib the stories of Melinda for the entertainment of their friends. The dramatist weaves a “tragedy” while the comedy writer composes a “comedy...
...Area, Mona had no redeeming social interest, only redeeming prurient interest. It's about an engaged girl who has promised her mom she'd be a virgin on her wedding day, but figures fellatio doesn't count. The movie spends its 70 mins. following the parallel adventures of Mona and Mama. (Both generations sup at the loins of Mona's fiance, and take my word, mom's hotter.) When her fiance learns about her outside partners, he insists she have a simultaneous assignation with all four of them, and her every orifice is plundered. Returning home, Mona tearfully says, "Mother...