Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparison of Les Cousins with Marie-Chantal (you can see it dubbed on TV as The Blue Panther every so often) reveals the latter film ludicrously written in contrast yet wildly more mature stylistically, a riveting blend of calculated camera movement in sensual decor with brilliantly cut sequences of action employing the zoom lens. Far from stagnating in the world of commercial mystery films, Chabrol has emerged the finest new stylist in France, far superior to Truffaut (whose Bride Wore Black pales in comparison), and in many ways surpassing Godard and Resnais...
...this Preface, "On the Prospects of Christianity," Shaw divides what is on his mind into some 83 short sections. He devotes a good many of these to a careful analysis and comparison of the four Gospels, showing how they give widely different pictures of Jesus' life, character, and teachings--sometimes to the point of absolute irreconcilability...
...their determined best to denigrate the other's qualifications for the presidency: McCarthy, 52, came across as casual, languidly professorial, mature and even a little sleepy-an impression that was enhanced by the pouches beneath his eyes. Kennedy, 42, appeared tense, brittle and, by visual and verbal comparison, considerably younger...
...Veterans Administration Hospital, likened those who join the Black Power movement to adolescents fighting for independence from resistant parents. The group's militancy, he told the meeting, stems from the failure of white "parents" to allow Negroes to take their rightful place in the American "family." Explaining the comparison, which most Negroes would dismiss as patronizing, Pinderhughes pointed out that a thwarted adolescent often becomes alienated and antisocial. Black Power militants, he said, might similarly reject the idea of rejoining the U.S. family as full-fledged relatives, even if such a status is eventually offered to them. "Much...
...with the lives of their friends and lovers, and in The Champagne Murders, border a thin line between the perverse and the insane. A plot, psychological warfare between Yvonne Furneaux and Maurice Ronet over ownership of the brand name of a famous French champagne, assumes only tangential importance in comparison to questions of what is or isn't real, whether insanity or cold-blooded calculation motivates the strange behavior of characters, and the three murders...