Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senate gives about $50,000 each year to the Carmichael Society, the Tufts umbrella organization for undergraduate volunteer activities. By comparison, the Undergraduate Council at Harvard gives $16,000 to the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...demands full beards--and defiantly secular in his views, Khasam makes it clear that he is no supporter of the city's former rulers. The gunmen who ran the town before the Russians were no good, he says, but the troops are even worse. His view is moderate in comparison with the feelings of some in the crowd. "Gudermes invited the Russians in because we knew they would flatten the city," says a 19-year-old named Salman. "The fighters will be back. Sooner or later, snipers will start killing Russians," he adds approvingly...
...first incarnation, this revue, mounted off-Broadway in 1993, suffered from comparison with its predecessor, the plotless Side by Side by Sondheim, which was a joyful feast of the composer's best songs. The successor (with Julie Andrews and a mismatched company of four) seemed to consist of leftovers garnished with Sondheim's less nourishing material and served up thematically as an odd sort of cocktail party. This Broadway revise finds the party device strengthened, but still forced, and the selection of songs improved. The new cast, led by Carol Burnett with great warmth and good humor, is creamy...
...therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that I've ever seen in American theater (the only comparison I can make is to 1995's The Fifth Element--and that, of course, was made by a French director...