Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predecessor, Floyd Wilson, preferred to wait for the good shot to open up and was willing to pass the ball around the periphery for minutes at a time if necessary. In contrast, Harrison, a former NBA All-Star, stresses motion towards the ball and towards the basket...
...There is Willard K. Knatpole, who tries to uncover Ustinov's illegal schemes and steal his woman at the same time. Bob Newhart plays the part, and, believe it or not, he's funny. Oozing nauseating lechery out of his beady eyes, he makes his rotten ugliness a splendid contrast with Ustinov's lovable ugliness...
...contrast, Jones, a Negro steelworker's son from Pittsburg, Texas, is a happy-go-lucky prankster whose speed (9.3 sec. for the 100-yd. dash), disconcerting agility and uncanny ability to catch a football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...
...fact, on a deeper level Forman's film and his previous release, Loves of a Blonde, are so relaxed and unimposing that they offer a real contrast to contemporary cinematography. With no hero, no violent or explosive action, and no plastic characters with expressions of angst molded into their features, this portrait of Czech life is singular in its impact. Instead of extraordinary experience or bigger than life tragedy, there are pathetic vignettes about totally unexplained but quite believeable people. In place of the complete involvement of constructed suspense, there is the uneventful yet amusing commonplace. It is reality...
...doubt about De Vries' allegiance to domestic commitment, however grotesque. In Hank Tattersall's swinging world, everything is possible, therefore nothing is binding. Like Pete Seltzer, Hank, too, talks about outrageous products. But he does so only in ironic mockery of himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game to be played with his dying son, and so become part of the sacred conspiracy of the living to make life seem less of a grim joke...