Word: parallelling
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...realistic and richly detailed as Dickens' London, with weather that changes hourly and carefully rendered litter tumbling down its meticulously drawn streets. Most video games give you a challenge, like eating all the dots while dodging hungry pastel-colored ghosts. In GTA3, your problems are real-world problems, like parallel parking...
...majority of the images chosen and the work itself. Tillmans adapts the still life—poignant, pointed and even beautiful—as something more appropriate to contemporary society. Objects are significant to Tillmans as traces of his past and we are reminded that they hold a parallel importance in our own lives...
...sidelines that got the Security Council to take up the Iraq issue last September and the Administration may now be hoping that reminding member states that Washington isn't bound by their consensus may pressure them into adopting a satisfactory disarmament resolution. The Administration's parallel assertion that Saddam will never comply implies that the UN process, in Washington's mind, is intended primarily to prove to the rest of the world that there is no alternative to invasion. But for many Europeans and Arabs, the UN process remains their best hope of pressuring Saddam to do what it takes...
Along the way, Tartt tells the parallel story of the Ratliff family (Danny proves to be a pitiable sad sack, terrorized by his elder brother). The connections between the Ratliffs and Harriet's family make a kind of class history of the white South from Jefferson Davis to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If Tartt's tone softens a bit at the end, her unsentimental clarity avoids the feel-good coming-of-age-tale pitfalls that irritate Harriet. "She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up," Tartt writes, "as what 'growing up' entailed (in life...
...doesn't want to pre-empt the commission's official findings, which are due by the end of the year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings-on everywhere at Sabena," he says, "and not just with the Airbus." Bizarre may be too mild a term. Parallel to the commission's work, Belgian magistrate Jean-Claude Van Espen is conducting a criminal inquiry into Sabena. His probe is based on three separate suits filed by former workers. Details of his investigation and the suits themselves are confidential, and no charges have yet been filed. But the plaintiffs have...