Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kids' experiences in Jamaica Plain stand in marked contrast to his own childhood in Cambridge. Hill became known around the city in the early 1970s as a gifted athlete...
...Beck (he uses only his first name professionally) were a sports team, sportswriters would say he's having a heck of a postseason. His album Odelay has sold only about 750,000 copies; in contrast, Celine Dion's Falling into You, another Album of the Year nominee, has sold more than 7 million. But in a year when overall record sales were flat and creativity seemed flatter, Beck has become a critics' darling, deservedly so, and has garnered an impressive number of end-of the-year accolades. Rolling Stone's music-savvy readers voted Odelay the Album of the Year...
...advised -- temperatures in many places may not break zero today, and are expected to dip again overnight. Across the upper Midwest, the snow is blowing over icy roads, creating treacherous driving conditions. Post offices, retail stores and schools have been forced to close their doors. Alaska, by contrast, is unseasonably warm today, with wind chills in Barrow a mere 10 below. The system will move east into lower Michigan and Ohio by this evening. Residents in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the nation's second-snowiest city, are bracing for at least another foot of snow today. Despite the arctic conditions...
...contrast to the threats of massive cuts to federal aid to higher education made early in the 104th Congress, those on Capitol Hill say the new legislative atmosphere is more conducive to compromise...
...croaky, the dancing sort of klutzy and the dialogue pure Woody--the noises that psychologically aware, politically correct people make when they are at desperate sexual cross-purposes. But such folks are entitled to their romantic yearnings. This film's good-humored poignance--and high originality--lies in the contrast drawn between the characters' passionate desire to put a little music in their lives and their inability to carry a tune...