Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diplomatic skills in a very effective way. If so, he will have to help make it happen. A truly enigmatic institution, the imperial household is secretive and, in general, tradition bound. Beyond its role in guarding the practice of religious rituals, nothing much is known about it. By comparison, European royal houses are open books...
...Helmsley is soon to be released, it may be because her consultant is able to dramatize the harsh treatment she has received in comparison with other tax evaders. As the judge was reminded in Helmsley's court filing, singer Willie Nelson was allowed to settle $15.6 million in unpaid taxes and penalties without any jail sentence at all, partly by agreeing to produce an album -- which he titled Who'll Buy My Memories: The IRS Tapes -- and turn all proceeds over to the government...
...accounts, the high-level of violence desensitizes everyone. A murder down the street might seem minor, even disappointingly mundane, in comparison to the splashy, action-packed violence of movies. Many claim that the reason the Los Angeles police officers were let off the first time was because the jury had seen the videotape of Rodney King's beating so many times that they were no longer shocked. This type of visual overload in turn deadens our impulse to act, our outrage at real violence...
...style has been likened to Billie Holiday's. It is a comparison that Lincoln, who has recorded two albums of Holiday's songs, encourages -- up to a point. Says she: "I can't imagine what it would have been for me if she hadn't been there." Like Holiday's, Lincoln's voice can be harsh. But she invariably finds the emotional center of a lyric, singing every syllable clearly enough to satisfy the standards of a BBC announcer...
...comparison to David Lynch's skewed soap opera is impossible to avoid, so best to get it out of the way quickly. Wild Palms would not exist if Twin Peaks hadn't paved the way. But Wild Palms is a total original -- just as daring as and perhaps even more demanding than Lynch's series. Twin Peaks, for all its weirdness, was at bottom a simple murder mystery: Who killed Laura Palmer? Wild Palms is denser and more disorienting, a paranoid dream play that bombards us with freaky characters and mystifying plot twists, tying them together only hours later...