Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the English discs are exceptionally worth-while from any musical standpoint, it is the two Cetra releases currently available at Briggs which are the most unusual and striking in their contrast to the ordinary American clasical product...
...preparation, witnessed the arrival of a fine new musical comedy at the Opera House last week. Recent musical comedy productions have, without exception, suffered by comparison with the unforgettable "Oklahoma!", and "Twilight Alley," the new Duke Ellington-John Latonche play, provides no variation from the general rule. 'In contrast to the many anemic and warstarved musicals which have cluttered up the glitterdust circuit in recent years, however, it is a lusty, healthy show, brilliantly staged, with an excellent score and fine, if uneven, east...
This week Ralston Crawford's painted reports were reproduced in the December FORTUNE and went on view in a Manhattan gallery. The closest thing to nature in his blast pictures was an occasional circle (representing portholes) which he included for the sake of contrast "as you would show the whiteness of a wall by putting a thumbprint on it." His Test Able was a pat, flat imitation of chaos...
...largely indifferent production, talented, sensitive 14-year-old Actor Tyler shines by more than contrast...
Because Latin America is bedeviled with penury and privilege, Communists can make first-class capital from the contrast, a job in which they are expert. Thus, when closing a deal with a dictator, they are careful to extract at least some paper concessions to labor. And with social demagoguery becoming fashionable among Latin strong men, such transactions are readily concluded. Result: waxing Communist strength...