Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
Copeland himself last year earned $349,846 in salary and bonus-a sum that pales in comparison with the $3,400,000 he collected in dividends on his Du Pont and Christiana shares. But the statistic that he watches most closely is Du Pont's profit as a percentage of invested capital. The company always aims for a 10% return on investment, usually comes close to achieving it. This year the figure has risen somewhat above the 8.6% of 1963, but the gain is not enough to satisfy Copeland, despite Du Pont's rising sales. Says he: "When...
...Michigan State course is only four miles long and relatively flat in comparison to the Van Cortland Park course that Hewlett and Allen have run so impresively on the last two weeks...
...enroll. The basis of Indian music is a melodic form called a raga, a series of notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands of ragas, each conveying a specific mood-joy, eroticism, loneliness, etc. Says Saxophonist Shank: "Everybody says how free our music is, but in comparison with Indian music we are terrifically restricted. It's endless what a musician like Ravi can do." Transported. Shankar began as a dancer with the famed Indian troupe headed by his brother, Uday Shankar. At 18, he disposed of all his worldly possessions and settled in a remote village...
...money: the Kennedy campaign is far better financed than Keating's. One Keating aide estimates offhand that Kennedy is spending twice as much as his opponent for television. When the votes are counted, what the candidates do personally may have little meaning in comparison to how often and how well they can project themselves over the airwaves; and Keating--both quantitatively and qualitatively--seems unable to match Kennedy in this competition...