Word: parallelling
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...think there's a parallel in my career and Clint's. We both have a particular audience that is loyal to us no matter what the critics say. With Clint, they want him to rip the bad guy's face off. With me, they want me to say those Don Rickles lines to people in authority?the bank clerk who won't cash your check, the traffic cop. And it even goes further, all the way up the lines of authority-even up to the President...
...banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything in it is equally interesting. And so, in a funamental way, it becomes a powerful tool...
...imprisoned in Mexico would be eligible for transfer to U.S. jails, provided they had more than six months to serve on their sentences, had not been convicted of a political offense or breaking immigration laws and, a key condition, would not contest their Mexican convictions in U.S. courts. Parallel provisions would hold for the 1,200 Mexicans locked...
Rothman and S. Robert Lichter. a postdoctoral fellow in psychology and politics at Yale, think that West German terrorism results not only from the radicalization of the German university but from the continued authoritarianism of the German family. In parallel studies of 1,500 American and German students, Rothman and Lichter discovered that radicals in both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole...
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath