Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, the first half of the program, conducted by Attilio Poto, consisted of two works whose place in the standard repertoire is secure, but which were treated in a manner reminiscent of the Orchestra's conspicuously poor performances of two years ago. Haydn's last symphony, No. 104, in D Major had at least the benefit of a spirited, well-played finale. But the rest of it, and Corelli's "Christmas" Concerto, which opened the concert sounded as if the orchestra were merely going through the motions. The intonation was unaccountably bad, the playing colorless, and the ensemble work...
Batista has almost no enthusiastic support among Cubans outside the government; Castro, by contrast, gets ardent backing from students, professional classes who chafe at the indignities and corruption of dictatorship, and the political left. But the Cuban masses refuse the danger and cost of active support for Castro and, by abstaining, line up for Batista. The eventual solution for divided Cuba is no more foreseeable than that of another violence-torn island-far-off Cyprus...
...moviemaker cuts from one way of life to the other, makes his points by contrast. When he looks at life in the living machine, Tati has some wonderful fun with an electric stove that has a monstrous control panel, and with a rationalized garden in which, of course, nothing grows. But it is when he looks at life on the seamy side that Tati has his grandest inspirations. There is a marvelous sequence, apropos of nothing, in which a dog leads a man on a leash. Yet surely the funniest passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo...
...leaps, pratfalls and double takes, cupboards and manholes. In a season deafened with the rat-tat-tat of drearily mechanical gag shows, this alone would call for modest thanks. But, in La Plume's case, the quality of merci is not strained; the show shines by more than contrast. If a fair number of its exhibits fall rather flat, even they have high spots to fall from, and acrobatic performers...
Billington's first impression of Russia was on his plane trip, when he noticed a contrast between the "harsh geometric patterns of the collective farms and the rugged, almost mystical beauty of the landscape...