Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tufted, brocaded and beaded. A collector of Oriental art, Saint Laurent has used for his clothes the colors of his objets d'art-jade green, Chinese bronze, and the rich reds and shiny blacks of lacquer. Soft opiate grays that add a smoky mystery to the costumes complement a perfume that he will introduce next year-named, appropriately, Opium...
...Steam, city railroad stations in the U.S. developed as the natural complement to the trains they served. They were convenient, spacious and well planned-temples to progress. In the Jet Age, by contrast, many airports are monuments of muddle, rapacity and discomfort. Despite $1.2 billion in federal aid to U.S. airports in the past ten years, the gap between ground technology and flight technology is vast, and apparently widening...
...organizations in American society are endowed with such a complement of criminals, confidence men, rogues and ruffians as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. And nowhere within that fraternity was rapacity more apparent than in the management-most people would call it mismanagement-of the union's $1.4 billion Central States, Southeast and Southwest pension fund. Under the guidance of both icy Jimmy Hoffa and shuffling Frank Fitzsimmons, trustees treated the fund as a pot of honey to be ladled liberally to friends and acquaintances. Now, after a two-year investigation by the Department of Labor and a threat...
...Taxi Driver and his upcoming New York, New York. About that time, Lucas also met Coppola, who has become a soul mate. Says Lucas: "We are opposites. If Francis says black, I say white. He is impulsive, always on the edge of trouble. I am inherently conservative. We complement each other." When he was only 23, Lucas received backing for THX-1138, an expansion of a science fiction short he had started at U.S.C. Though the movie failed commercially, it was impressive enough to encourage Universal to finance American Graffiti...
...rest of the company is good, too. And they complement each other nicely: cute and blond Paul Redford with peachfuzz, big and sympathetic David Reiffel with a mustache, socially advanced Sarah McClusky, sweeter and softer Eliza Hale and socially unadvanced Jackie Osherow combine with Emerson's sly clowning in a smooth blend...