Word: complements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throat-clearing chore of drafting a platform was complete, and the rafter-reaching speeches were about to begin. Inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center, workmen folded down the last bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable...
Mondale and Ferraro complement each other well on the stump, though the contrast in style can be jarring. Ferraro is breezy and colloquial, Mondale becalmed and formal. Occasionally, as if advised not to act too effervescent, she attempts to rein herself in. When a band in Cleveland struck up New York, New York, Ferraro began swaying, but abruptly stopped. "I just love to dance," she half-apologized. For Mondale's introduction the combo played a catchy disco tune, but he did not even twitch. Yet Mondale seems invigorated by Ferraro; he speaks more forcefully and smiles more readily when...
...rather simplistic argument is meant to complement Greer's central claim; that all unwanted children are a tragedy, but that we in the West have far more than they in the East. Therefore, who are we to tell them they must curb their birthrate? We are more responsible for overpopulating the planet than they are--they at least want their children...
...Porter to Rogers and Hammerstein, to Vangelis. The music works surprisingly well, illuminating a particular mood, heightening or relieving the tension of a particular scene, but is most effective as a means of drawing out the opposition between theatre-as-entertainment and theatre-as-human drama. The two extremes complement one another, the theatrical play creating something positive from the tragic experiences Wedekind presents...
...chances are good, since the candidates have studied English for an average of nine years. If satisfied, the Georgia contingent is empowered by local school systems from urban Atlanta to rural Cherokee County to offer a standard one-year contract to as many as 20 teachers. Even this complement may not be enough; Georgia high schools will need 93 new math teachers this fall. The state's universities are training only 61, some of whom will probably be siphoned off by corporations...