Word: contrastes
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...songs like “The Post,” Van Dam highlighted the contrast between the cheerful opening and the abrupt change of mood in the second stanza. Each utterance of “Mein Herz” (“My Heart”) encompassed the emotional spectrum, from optimism to anguish. At his finest moments, he was able to take a semi-strophic song, like the opening “Gute Nacht” (“Good Night”), and turn it into a compelling narrative, making the music speak differently each time it reappeared...
...Iraq apart, he never bothered to actually describe the situation in North Korea. “Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people,” he explained without making the contrast explicit, “and the same murderous tyrant has tried to dominate the Middle East and has invaded and brutally occupied a small neighbor as recently as a decade ago.” Not once in his response to the question of double standards does he so much...
...pint-size adult or supergirl. (She's Harriet, not Harriet the Spy.) She is smart but not wise, naive but not innocent, a stubborn moral absolutist who acts not out of Harry Potter bravery but out of love, prejudice and ignorance of the consequences of her actions. In contrast, her best friend and accomplice, Hely, a dim, happy, "normal" boy who loves James Bond and cartoons, treats the mission like a spy game (he's Tom Sawyer to Harriet's Huck) until too late...
Harvard still didn’t let down after the half, even with the 3-0 lead—a sharp contrast to the Crimson’s last game where it led 3-0 against Yale and never found the net again. Sophomore Shelley Maasdorp scored on a backhanded shot off a penalty corner just 2:42 into the second half, and senior forward Philomena Gambale capped the scoring 10 minutes later...
...pater les bourgeois (and just about everyone else, lumpenproles included), has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and was named one of the 101 essential things in New York City by Time Out: New York magazine. Harvard’s band, by contrast, has long been known for its soporific quality—the marching bland, if you will...