Word: twinning
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...Virginia Woolf Effect has a twin. Men were similarly encouraged to overvalue and romanticize women. Women now profess to find that sort of idealization stultifying and ultimately imprisoning. Would so much be lost if each sex mirrored the other at twice the real size and stature...
...overwhelming majority of American colleges and universities, fulfilling these twin pledges--however desirable in theory--is in fact an economic impossibility," Rudenstine says...
...like a slap in the face--stinging-hot but strangely cool. Its power lies in the bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...
...rest of the game would be all blue--Wildcat blue, that is. The twin-sister tandem of Marcie and Meaghan Lane destroyed the Harvard defense, driving hard to the bucket when coverage was tight and hitting the jumper when coverage was loose, and the other Wildcats followed their lead. UNH took a 58-55 lead with nine minutes left and never looked back...
Then there was an incident in which McDougal in effect swapped 20 Whitewater building lots, almost half the project's total, for little more than a twin- engine Piper Seminole airplane that was later sold for a loss of $13,000. That loss was absorbed by Madison Guaranty's depositors, but federal taxpayers eventually had to pick up the tab through the RTC. Another intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy...