Something, perhaps, akin to buying Newsweek.
It's conceivable that in a country riven by entrenched ideologies, a parable that makes a point of teaching nothing has intrinsic value -- as a vague form of protest, maybe, something akin to the Ramones ("I don't care about history..."...
What a whopper: This is like a penultimate amalgamation, and if you're up on kids TV, maybe even akin to a climactic Power Rangers battle.
Instead, Ng and his team will use the money to initiate new businesses and build new companies in a model that's maybe more akin to the early Betaworks model.
Avery's ploy had been unorthodox, unprecedented, and, as players and sages would declare afterward, "embarrassing" and "bush" — akin, maybe, to doing pushups over the twelfth hole at Augusta while an opponent is putting for par.
For most of us, though, the Super Bowl is just an event, a happenstance that gets a lot of advance attention — like, say, a solar eclipse or New Year's Eve in Times Square — or maybe hyped entertainment akin to the season premiere of "American Idol".
Maybe that's akin to some innate fear of heights, maybe there's an evolutionary edge to feeling things like awe, epiphany, transcendence.
The underlying message of both Lagerfeld and Kaling's opinions is rooted in appreciation and the tiny applause we hear when someone comments on an outfit, look or piece -- akin, maybe, to someone recognizing an accomplishment of yours at work, or an athletic performance.
