Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the places where these caffeinated rendezvous take place make cheap dives look hospitable by comparison. I know these places all to well, since my significant other is as inveterate a coffee-drinker as I am an anti-coffee complainer. The most prominent Square dealer of coffee is Au Bon Pain. This bustling souk is an appropriate center for the vortex of madness that is Harvard Square. Placing an order here is like snatching food at a U.N. relief center; rather than a line, ABP's organizing principle is a mob, attended to by several semi-competent cashiers...
...Miracle (1948). For Fellini, however, God was a goddess and woman was the world -- everything in the world that excites and frightens, forbids and enchants. To Marcello in La Dolce Vita, woman is "mother, sister, daughter, lover, angel, home." How small and sad and funny men are in comparison! At one end of the spectrum they are like the midget bluenose in Boccaccio 70 (1962) overwhelmed by Anita Ekberg as a sexual giantess -- it's the attack of the 50-ft. libido. At the other end they are like Guido in 8 1/2 cracking the whip in a vain attempt...
...first time ever, bearing with it the yields on many stock and bond funds. The average aggressive-growth fund has risen 29% in the past 12 months. Corporate-bond funds gained 13% overall. Commercial banks, fully aware how anemic their certificate-of-depo sit rates look in comparison, are actively luring customers into the wealth-generating world of funds. As a result, mutual funds sold through banks now account for about 15% of all new fund sales...
...theme of concealment of maternal identity invites comparison with Caryl Churchill's contemporaneous Top Girls. But in contrast to Churchill's gritty political realism, My Mother Said I Never Should provides a tender and ultimately uplifting perspective on the experience of women in this century. No one who finds themselves on Beacon Hill with a few hours to spare has any excuse...
...this subtle comparison, Doerr undermines the romanticism of the remote foreign hamlet. Loomis, the only involuntary member of the community, alone succeeds in forging a bright future in this brave new world. The others mentally reconstruct Amapolas to match the painting on the book's cover. The local grandee cautions his guest: "Consider this, senora. You are transforming Amapolas into something more beautiful than...