Word: versus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
HPRE keeps its units in better condition than other landlords in part because it serves an academic community, according to Keller. About 50 percent of HPRE's units turn over every year, versus about 10 percent for the rest of the market, she says. Each time a unit turns over, HPRE pays to have it cleaned and painted...
...parallel that comes to mind is the huge public outcry after Matthew Shepard's death versus the virtual silence after Rita Hester's equally brutal murder," he said...
...book, in fact, discusses the struggle to obtain equal rights for gays. Sullivan personally makes an impassioned argument for the recognition of gay marriage. He also presents a comprehensive survey of different theories on the genesis of homosexuality that, in spanning Freud to modern psychologists, address the nature versus nurture debate head...
...overall cheeriness of the production, however, it wasn't at all unidimensional. Several of Loesser's songs deserve recognition for their diverse, rather surprising content, which ran the gamut from Latin to lyrical and highlighted the differences between the two primary couples in question, i.e. Kitty and Jack versus Charley and Amy. Whereas Kitty and Jack were content with their love, a fact reflected in the unvarying sweetness and joyful lyrics of their songs, Amy and Charley were more spontaneous as people and had less equanimity as characters. At one point, Amy sang a solo expressing her mixed feelings about...