Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Harlem tame by comparison. The pastel-painted shantytowns with their deceptive names-"Pleasure Hill," "Peacock," "Heaven"-breed hoods with monikers like "Tidal Wave," "Uncle Horrible" and "Dried Meat...
...month search for a worthy successor to Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who left Denver for a better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted no time bidding for the job, sending along samples of his work from...
GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama suffers in comparison with its famed 1939 exhibit. The reason perhaps is that the future has come upon us so hard and so fast that the once-incredible magic of what's next now seems all too believable...
GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama suffers in comparison with its famed 1939 exhibit. The reason perhaps is that the future has come upon us so hard and so fast that the once-incredible magic of what's next now seems all too believable. And Futurama '64 is annoyingly hard to see, with its one-glance-and-you're-past dioramic layout-a sad comedown from Futurama '39's magnificent panoramic display...
...Sentiments." When her husband died, Jacqueline Kennedy was already recognized as the most dazzling First Lady in U.S. lore. It was inevitable that anyone following her would suffer by comparison. Such was the lot of Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, bearer of perhaps the most unfortunate public nickname in years. But what kind of name has Lady Bird made for herself? Reaction to her so far has been politely cool. Says Maggie Daly, columnist for Chicago's American: "She looks like every well-dressed woman of means. She does not have any special flair." Observes Françoise Giroud...