Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Filmmaker Jennifer Fox spent a year and a half with the family through crises and celebrations, begging--like the none too subtle title--comparison to 1973's An American Family. But where that work shocked us by showing the suburban Louds falling apart, this one is surprising for the quiet strength with which its family stays together. In the process it shows that racial rapport in America is elusive not just because of history or politics but also because, like Bill and Karen's difficult but triumphant love, it requires years of personal effort. Love Story will reward anyone...
...find yourself resisting the vulgar over-simplification of this comparison, it is my writer's luxury to pre-empt you with the information that you are being mistaken, and worse, typical. The reason it doesn't seem wrong to comb a strange country gathering email addresses you will never in good honesty use is because you have already set that time period aside as an anomaly in the normal flow of your life. But while your rules are altered, your conduct is aligned with the way you have always lived, whether you will admit...
...Senior Gift fund--whose total value pales in comparison to many gifts the University receives, but serves to cultivate the habit of alumni giving--has come under fire from angry seniors in the past...
...where McGwire proceeded to smack his 500th and 501st home runs on Thursday night. "He?s really sick of this story, and of all the attention in general. "If he'd made this announcement at the beginning of the season, every game, every home run, would be a running comparison to last season. This way he gets the message out there without a replay of the added daily distraction that he got during most of the record race." This was a way to let it seep out -- if it gets out at all. McGwire deliberately passed on a chance...
...despite this year's rise, the scores remain slightly below state norms. Thirty-seven percent of third-graders statewide are "proficient" readers and 31 percent rank "advanced"; Cambridge, by comparison, has 31 percent and 28 percent of students in the respective categories...