Word: parallels
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Likewise, the finest moment in Rosencrantz occurse when Hamlet, having rushed onstage (to R and G's usual befud-dlement), begins delivering a soliloquy to the theater's rear wall, and the parallel strikes home: When the Prince delivered that soliloquy in his own play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were upstage of him, seeing only his back. The audience has been placed entirely within the spies perspectives as minor characters within a larger show, summoned mysteriously from a place they cannot remember on a mission they cannot understand...
...social recorder all the time, and many of his best images are of the single object, a thing in itself, conveyed in the most subtly pictorial manner. His photo of an apple tree in a bare winter field, circa 1898, has a wild, precise intensity whose only parallel, in painting, must be the apple trees painted by Mondrian as a young man. When he photographed a motif a second or third time (as he often did, sometimes decades apart), the images, of village houses in Châtenay or trees in the park at St.-Cloud, each announces its specific...
...HAVE TO BE an English major to enjoy this book. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry, collected parodies of poetry by Chaucer to E.B. White, is structured to parallel the famed Norton Anthology. Covering some 700 years of verse, the Brand-X Anthology, edited by William Zaranka, makes for both dignified sport and amusing diversions...
...5/1/80-4/30/82 Medical Jet Lag Prevention: Physiological Mechanibms and Iharcacological Therapy Martin Moore-Ede $265,041 4/1/78-3/31/82 Medical Spectroscopic Determination of Intermolecular Potentials of Gas Laser Components and of Major Atmospheric Constituents William Klemperer $345,048 4/1/77-9/30/81 Arts and Sciences Fields and Currents and Charges on Obstacles in a Parallel-Plate Simulator at Selected Frequencies Tai Tsun Wu $94,153 2/2/81-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences...
Some skepticism greeted the official explanation. It is true that there were no sure signs of parallel attacks anywhere else, or any coordinated efforts to take over the country, as presumably would have been the case in a wider conspiracy. But some questions remained. Sadat's security men seemed slow to react, though the spectacular nature of the attack might well have stunned them. More important, the professional nature of the assault suggested the possibility of thorough training and a larger operation. Somehow the assassins evaded the security check prior to the parade. They were able to sneak live ammunition...