Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for the remains of the Russian satellite continued, much of the public fear over widespread radiation dangers dissipated. The Soviet nuclear package actually packed a punch equivalent to about 100,000 tons of TNT-a puny power in comparison with modern nuclear weapons. Yet it is also five times the explosive force dropped on Hiroshima. While a full explosion of the uranium 235 seemed technically impossible, the worst-case scenario of radiation damage was frightening. If Cosmos 954 had somehow survived re-entry and released all of its radiation in a city like New York, the death and disabling...
...experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers, with only a few fresh morsels to offer...
...automatic fate of any woman photographer with a taste for images of neurosis to be compared with the late Diane Arbus. Actually, with Mark, the comparison is not very useful. The harsh solipsism of Arbus' shots, their frontal, specimen-like character, the sense that one is conspiratorially sharing a taste for alienation - none of that emerges from "Ward 81." Mark does not skimp on desperation. There are grotesqueries, like the image of a male patient beginning a hand stand - a knot of barely decipherable limbs, a weird sculpture on the glittering linoleum. But the general character of the photographs...
THESE FLAWS, HOWEVER, are minor in comparison to the gross mistake of casting Dom DeLuise as Adolph Zitz, the head of Paramount's rival studio. DeLuise, whose only attributes are obesity, overacting and the ability to strangle on cue, wields his demeanor like a sledgehammer and leaves viewers so unsettled that it takes them a while to remember what the rest of the movie is about. Once he appears on the screen with his insipid lackeys and his hapless barber-valet, it is hard for the nicer elements of the plot to reassert themselves...
...larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting from the lip as fast as Eastwood shoots from the hip. The comparison is not with their contemporary peers but with the major figures of the great age of screen heroism, to Coop and Gable, Bogie and Duke, those exemplars of the democratic notion that the seemingly ordinary could be, should be, the repository of the extraordinary...