Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps most inconsistent in the theatrical rewrite by Miss Smith and George Abbott is that the authors expanded and burlesqued the Cissy part, making a vehicle for Shirley Booth and now Miss Blondell, while they left the Nolens as poignant as before. This creates a jarring contrast; and since the music and choreography fit in with the lighter parts of the production, the Nolen scenes lie alone and disjointed...
...contrast, Harriman had high praise for Stevenson and his "intelligent, forthright campaign." "I have the greatest confidence in Stevenson and the men around him. It is unfortunate that men like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. have to undergo abusive smear attacks." he stated...
...contrast to this, both Charles Laughton and David Wayne soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not as easy as one might think. Blending pathos with humor, Laughton steals an umbrella, breaks a window, swindles a restaurant--all unnoticed by the police. In the best tradition of O. Henry irony, he is nabbed just when he decides to turn respectable...
...opponent's sense of humor. On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all he has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough to cause havoc abroad, and a restatement of the old Republican line on Asia. Contrast the General's speeches with Stevenson's, and you will find that while the Governor thinks, Eisenhower believes--and his beliefs have provided nothing to satisfy the electorate's desire for effective and original answers...
...aside its entire second floor for the incoming delegates. But, as usual, the preparations were for the most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which the 2,000 delegates were to meet was being kept under careful wraps until the last moment. In marked contrast with an American political convention, there would be no prying TV eyes, no creepie-peepies to eavesdrop on unrehearsed moments, no hooting and howling from spectators in the galleries-and nothing to be really voted on, either...