Word: parallelling
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...says NASA. Long ago, the agency noticed a parallel between the changes that happen to a body in space and those wrought by aging on Earth. What better way to study this phenomenon than to send an aged astronaut into orbit? And what better aged astronaut than the one who made the country's first trip...
...good guy accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another bad guy had time to look up and react just before being run over by a truck...
...unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when it was a crummy TV show. As a crummy movie, it turns itself into a cautionary tale about bad parenting, complete with an It's a Wonderful Life-like parallel universe in which we see what becomes of latchkey kids on other planets (nothing good...
...idealism and his rapacity, the good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago and transformed the entire field of medical education and research. Rockefeller's enemies simplified the puzzle by dismissing him as a hypocrite. Rockefeller, being...
...Hillel to me has meant a community, a comfort and a haven throughout the time that I've been here," Sugarman says. It's an entirely unique place and I don't expect to find it's parallel after I graduate...