Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call Roemer's film, then, a "slice of life" is entirely insufficient. His desire to make invented stories seem like real life, to create complete belief in a screen illusion, is unsophisticated by comparison with the symbolic exertions of some modern moviemakers. But Roemer did not arrive at this idea, or realize his current film, by proceeding from the obvious. "Ingenuous as I may seem," he said last week, "I am not ingenuous...
Eisenstein pits Nevsky against diabolic Swedes in brutal-looking helmets and flapping white robes. Nevsky's heroism is magnified by comparison with his lieutenants Buslai and Gavrilo--heroes on a more human scale...
Center Doug Hayes, who occasionally skates on Mathews' line, is the Green's other producer, with 14 goals and 24 assists. In comparison, Harvard's three leading scorers, Baldy Smith, Dennis McCullough, and Pete Waldinger, have 13 points each...
...others. A much more highly modeled, carefully shaded version was bought by Pennsylvania's Barnes Foundation from Cézanne's dealer, Ambroise Vollard, in 1933. Another, and the largest version, was purchased three years later by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for $110,000. By comparison, the British buy (on which Cézanne worked from 1897 to 1906) seems sketchy, leading some critics to call it crude, while other experts see it as perched on the threshold of cubism...
...comparison of records is not much help in picking the winner. Neither team has been particularly pressed by an opponent; Princeton blanked Army, 9-0, while Harvard won 8-1. And the man who lost for Harvard has been beaten for his starting position. So who's better...