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...instance, to parallel the sibling rivalry that Tommy and Dil are dealing with, Stu and his brother Drew bring up deep-seated fraternal arguments from their childhood, only to have them neatly wrapped up at the end of the film without a word of explanation. More dramatic than this sibling rivalry theme is Tommy's dilemma: to stay loyal to his best friend Chuckie or to fulfill his responsibility to his new brother. In fact, "sponsitility" plays an almost annoyingly large part in the storyline, giving a weird allegorical bent to the movie. These rather adult topics don't merge...
...Minister Tang Jiaxuan said that "Japan has never completely abandoned its militaristic past in the same way as Germany with the Nazis. If it were to do so, China and other Asian nations would not have to keep reminding Japan of history so often." Tang's statement, drawing a parallel between the terror of Nazi violence and the Japanese violence, effectively evokes the degree of resentment many Chinese feel. How can a people so humiliated be expected to forget about history when Japan has not been confronted head...
...though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they matured...
...cardiac education, which--with another heart attack in 1993 and with the reappearance last spring of the radioactive symptoms--is well along in its postgraduate phase. I share this with you (as they say in group) because the history of my heart's misadventures happens, luckily for me, to parallel the story of the late 20th century's medical advances in the treatment of heart disease. And because at the American Heart Association's meeting last week in Dallas, still more remarkable new treatments were auditioned. I have enjoyed, so far, an existential scissors graph: my heart gets worse; medicine...
...Allen traces Lee's and Robin's parallel courses toward opposite fates, Celebrity, even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...