Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember? Well, fear not for your sanity. The space program was real, but these people and events are part of the peculiar parallel world that Novelist James Michener constructed in his 1982 best seller Space and that is unfurling this week over five nights and 13 hours on CBS. Viewers are being beckoned onto the long Space flight after scarcely catching their breath from another extended TV voyage, NBC's twelve-hour tour of the early years of Christianity, A.D. Indeed, there has hardly been a respite all season from the parade of miniseries. Seven multipart dramas of three nights...
There is only one problem with this attempt to fashion a contemporary parallel of Renaissance parables: Bogdanovich isn't clever enough to succeed. He prevent us from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended...
Alongside the government bureaucracy is the separate and parallel structure of the Communist Party, with its 17.5 million members organized to penetrate and supervise every aspect of national life. At the top of this pyramid are the Central Committee and the ruling Politburo, now headed by Gorbachev. Starting with the Central Committee secretaries who oversee the functions of the government ministries, the party structure mirrors the framework of the bureaucracy in every respect, reaching down to people's control committees, with some 10 million inspectors, who check on local management. In fact, the party apparatus extends even further...
...John Madden. "What may stop him is that flying," says his father Walter, from whom he inherited the queasy sensation. On Canadian airlines, Gretzky is brought to the cockpit for soothing by the pilots. It is hard to express what a towering figure he is north of the 49th parallel. His $21 million hockey contract extending to the end of the millennium constitutes about a third of his earnings after adding cereals, pillowcases and Barbie-size Wayne dolls. All the same, he tolerates the attention without strain and enjoys pointing out that Saskatoon and Flin Flon are not exactly...
SARAH'S BACKGROUND does parallel Lee's; she too, is a child of middle-class Philadelphia Blacks. Her father is a preacher in the prosperous and ironically named New African Church. Reverend Phillips is also active in the civil rights movement. Sarah recalls Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism...