Word: constrast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Globe, NBC News, ad infinitum, are delivering a conventional wisdom that the Democrats latest convention is evidence of a return to conservative sanity after the ideological rending of 1968 and 1972. Martin Nolan, one of the best of Washington columnists, compares the McGovern and Carter installations as a constrast between a Rotary convention and Woodstock nation. This viewpoint implies that the Democrats have gone back to being something akin to the Christian Democrats of Italy--a permanent majority party dedicated to winning elections and dispensing patronage, oblivious to broader issues since the American electorate is itself "non-ideological...
...mirror on the wall, who's that girl I see?/... That girl is me"), and, as they recreate it, we see the same number being performed in mirror image and full costume by the old girls as they were three decades earlier in the rear of the stage. The constrast between the two images of these characters and their times (as well as the unexpected double meaning of the trivial lyrics they are singing) produce an effect that is not nostalgic, as one might guess, but harsh and pathetic...