Word: parallelling
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...riots with the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. On CBS, Dan Rather gave an unusually downbeat report on Britain's social unrest, high unemployment and general decline. All three networks interviewed Britons eloquent about problems. Enoch Powell was trotted out, the dour fellow who once warned of a parallel with the river Tiber running red with blood in ancient Rome if "colored" immigration in Britain was not reduced. A Scottish M.P., Willie Hamilton, who thinks the Crown an expensive anachronism and Princesses Margaret and Anne in particular to be parasites, got a long and polite hearing from Ted Koppel...
...rolling Franconian countryside, near the point where West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet, a U.S. Army helicopter is giving a brisk guided tour of the frontier. The helicopter cruises parallel to the ugly belt of East German barbed wire and minefields, staying about 100 yds. to the safe side. Occasionally the pilot banks sharply to avoid stray "peninsulas" of East German territory jutting out from the fencing. "You have to know this border by heart," says the pilot. "You could get yourself shot at." His passengers are appreciative. "We call those places 'Gotchas,' " he adds pleasantly. Back...
...Hyatt's dramatic five-story atrium lobby was transected by three walkways. The atrium has become an architectural signature of the Hyatt chain. In the $50 million Kansas City structure, the top and bottom sky bridges ran parallel to each other, two floors apart, protruding about ten feet from the west wall of the lobby. A third, middle bridge, 15 feet farther from the wall, did not collapse...
...Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie to the apotheosis of the high Disney style in such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio's "stars." The animators learned to incorporate tragedy (the panic of a lost boy in Pinocchio, the death of Bambi's mother) in what the public persisted in calling "cartoons...
...office in city hall, stretched full-length in a black leather chair to one side of the fireplace, where he customarily talks to visitors. The office is well proportioned: 18-ft. ceilings and six high arches containing the windows and doors. The paintings vary?an uninteresting abstract consisting of parallel lines; a Matisse of a languishing nude; a study by Isabel Bishop of "Two Girls," young women really, the one in the red hat looking concerned toward the one in the black hat, who is holding a letter, perhaps conveying bad news. The room is a trove of bric...