Word: parallelling
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...culture for a long time, largely because of the powerful economic influence," he explains. "In the Tang dynasty, from A.D. 600 to 900, when the Silk Road was at its peak, China had an open-door policy and foreigners could go there to make a living." Sheng sees a parallel nexus between trade and culture in the contemporary scene: "Asia's interest in Western culture today arises directly from the terrific boom in economic prosperity. Let's face it, culture and the arts always have a close tie to the economy...
...unified field theory of his life. "I think," he told us, "if people have unresolved anger, it makes them do nonrational, destructive things." The President insisted that was not an excuse, just an explanation. "I think a lot of it was that I was back to living my parallel lives with a vengeance, dealing with the Ken Starr thing...
Clinton's theory is that he has always lived "parallel" lives. As a child, he hid the deep anger he felt over his stepfather's drunken violence behind a relentlessly sunny facade. He is brutal about his childhood failings. He describes himself as "fat, uncool and hardly popular with the girls." He writes that he "tended to make enemies effortlessly" and that he was so clumsy, he outgrew his fear of riding a bike without training wheels only as a college student at Oxford...
Stone says the community planning process will parallel Harvard’s own internal planning...
...there you have the official winners. But there is a parallel Cannes competition: it is screened in each viewer?s mind. A critic sees 30 to 50 films in ten days, and as the festival wears on the good ones nudge the bad ones aside to linger a while in the memory. Here, then, are the awards for Cannes 2004 from one critic who, since 1973, has spent 31 lovely fortnights in this dream palace on the Cote d?Azur...