Word: parallelling
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...nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail parallel to Nature's sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt...
...governor The nominations are non-binding as the official Democratic candidates will not be decided until the September primary but many observes feel there is a good chance the two will share the ticket in November If that occurs, it will be only the latest in a series of parallel events in the two careers...
...relevance of Bitter Fruit. Schlesinger claims, is "almost cerie." He draws a striking parallel between the Eisenhower Administration and President Reagan's Washington. "It seemed inconceivable to me that a government like Eisenhower's with John Foster Dulles could come back into power in this country," he says. "Then you wake up one day and find Ronald Reagan in the White House and Al Haig as Secretary of State mounting the same polemical statements about communism in Central America as Eisenhower...
...Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...
...Wrote one French envoy who witnessed the spectacle: "The splendor of the decorations, the variety of costume, the crowds of richly dressed spectators, the noise of the oars, and the shouts of the rowers, added to the music of innumerable instruments, produce a whole which would be difficult to parallel elsewhere." But rising maintenance costs gradually forced the royal barges off Thailand's waterways. Fifteen years ago, the royal procession disappeared altogether, a victim of jet-age austerity...