Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peroxide Ideal of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield-cotton to this refined new kind of stimulation? "That smile," one executive shuddered. "It doesn't arouse the cad in a man. It brings out the uncle." And another thing: Maria's earthy body makes a startling contrast to her heavenly face. From her father's side of the family she has inherited the chunky frame of a Swiss farm girl, with heavy hips and strapping thighs. Richard Brooks, who directed her in Karamazov, sums up: "She isn't the sort of girl who gives you sweaty palms...
...from so. From its inception, NATO has stood for peace, not in the sense of open war delayed by a standoff in the arms race, but in the sense of peace achieved through an expanding state of justice and understanding. In contrast, the Soviet system imposes upon the great mass of its workers a harsh, menacing discipline which drives blindly but inevitably toward concentration on new weapons, including missiles and atomic warheads. The Communists have also enlarged their industrial capacity and dared the West to a world economic contest...
Spanish newspapers printed disturbing reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...contrast to the Crimson's 52 per cent accuracy from the floor, the Huskies could manage only 31 per cent, and were limited to 47 shots, compared to the varsity's 89. Forward Dick Stewart, with 24 markers, and Mike Dvorchak, with 18, were the only stars for the losers...
...hair shirt. And each character's inner wound, however honestly representative, is dramatically a little commonplace. There is no enveloping mood to the play because there is recurrent parlor comedy and domestic vaudeville-things that instead of deepening the serious scenes emphasize them too much by contrast. Deeper chords never sound. The dark is there, truly enough; but it is much less terrifying, and even much less dark, from being so studiously spotlighted...