Word: parallelling
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Among these is the tragedy of Bangladesh, a nation which ten years ago this winter gained its independence at an incredible cost. Most reports estimated at least one million killed: some tripled that number. This slaughtering of Bengalis by Pakistani forces between March and December 1971 probably has no parallel in modern history except the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews. Under the pretext of putting down a threat to the unity of the nation of Pakistan, the genocide proceeded with a brutal and purposeful efficiency. Beginning in March with a raid by the Pakistani army on the capital city...
...field events, Towne has a good range of athletic activity to cover in near documentary fashion. He is still pretty much in the awkward stage as a director, and there is more of this material than is good for the dramatic structure of the movie. He does effectively parallel Chris' rise from klutzy incompetence to championship caliber with her development as a woman from unformed adolescence to self-aware maturity...
...faces glowing orange and red in the wild spinning lights. At the giant revolving swing, a man solemnly takes tickets and the children mount the seats in pairs. Slowly the machine turns; slowly the nickelodeon starts up; and the chains that hold the swings grow taut until they parallel the ground. Suddenly the children are on their sides in the air, whirling above Belfast, impelled from the center by centrifugal force...
...story is not at all confused. Nor does anyone at Jubilee doubt its authenticity. For one thing, there are witnesses to it?not many, to be sure, since only five of the original eleven voyagers survived. Those who made it verify Pham's account, if somewhat reluctantly. The two parallel gashes also serve as supporting evidence. Even after two months, they stand out like a reddened equals sign on the top of Pham's head...
...Nobel Prize acceptance speech in a high, fast drawl; Robert Lowell stridently brave in poems about his mental illness; Ernest Hemingway growling Across the River and into the Trees like a Midwestern newsman with too many years at the anchor desk; and John Dos Passes lending The Forty-Second Parallel a hoarse intensity. Like some book publishers, Caedmon has noticed a surprising interest in the short story. Among its new bestsellers are Eudora Welly's warm rendition of Powerhouse and John Cheever's wry, precise delivery of The Swimmer...