Word: contrastingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught Gehrmann just getting down to his mark. He had to pour it on to catch up, but at the quarter the red Wisconsin jersey was out in front-in 59.5. Track veterans, remembering Gil Dodds's windmill style, were struck by the contrast; like a good rumba dancer, Gehrmann hardly moved from the waist up. He was all legs, eating up the boards with a long (8½ ft.), smooth and relaxed stride. Crumpled in his right hand, Gehrmann clutched something blue-a handkerchief, for luck...
...concerned with emotion in spite of everything. Some of my things are sorrowful, some are jokes." His favorite stunt is no joke to Albers. At first glance his paintings look rigid and definite to the point of dullness, but there is nothing definite about them. Through tricks of contrast and perspective he makes the shapes in his painting shift and change as the looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they...
Most London dailies expanded from four to six pages, three days a week. Only the News Chronicle devoted the bulk of this extra space to wider reporting of politics and industry. By contrast, Beaver-brook's Daily Express added Dick Tracy and Kit Conquest to its comic strips, expanded the letters-to-the-editor column, and turned Woman's Editor Anne Edwards loose for two columns on her favorite foods and pet hates. The Daily Mirror, locked in a circulation war with the Express, also added a woman's page to its successful formula of sex-plus...
...dominant quality of De Havil-land's Virginia is the contrast between her madness and the pretty, still-young face. In her case, insanity seems as" incongruous as in Ophelia's. This quality gives her entire performance the profound sadness of Laertes' question: . . . Is't possible a young maid's wits should be as mortal as an old man's life...
Snap. Sharp contrast between black & white...