Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigid dignity of the Queen with perfect confidence. Her dancing is stiff, but dramatically right; when her fingers open stiltedly you think of them as somehow organic, like something growing in jerks. Lance Morrow is grave as the fearful and proud King, and the music and the direction complement the motion nicely...
...reason is that when two strands form a helix, each of the four kinds of bases in a strand must face a particular kind of base, its complement, in the opposite strand. Hybridization occurs only where strands of DNA are complementary and suggests similarity in base sequence...
DUET (Doris Day with the André Previn Trio; Columbia). A honey of a partnership. Doris has just the right baby-blue style to complement Previn's elegantly simple arrangements, and the material is right for both of them: Close Your Eyes, Nobody's Heart, My One and Only Love...
Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand, wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...suggestion that the United States should accede to some aims of Soviet foreign policy "with no negotiation or quid pro quo of any kind." At the outset, it should be noted that that is not what the students said. Their program of initiatives was proposed as "the necessary complement to sustained and serious negotiations." (p. 6) But leaving that aside, the students did suggest that the United States undertake on its own a series of steps without waiting for a negotiated quid pro quo. Does this suggestion demonstrate irresponsibility...