Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, who plays the incipient old maid, has been around in starring roles for a long time. However, she has largely been content to rely heavily on a few tricks. For instance, she cries well--first her chin begins to tremble, and then the tears come in a flood. She gives several demonstrations of this somewhat limited achievement in the course of the film. Fortunately, though, the character she portrays is well within her range, and the performance is generally creditable, a fact which may probably be due in part to the restraining influence of director...
...contrast to the Eliot-Dunster "A" game, the Funsters' "B" team beat Eliot in a game marked by very few personal fouls. This was the result of a set-shooting duel between the two teams, as both hit well from the outside and did not drive in for layups...
...fifth month in a row, it crept up in January to a mark of 118.2 (the 1947-49 average = 100), thus stood .2 above December, 1.1 above September, and a sharp 3.6 above January 1956. The 3.6 climb in a single year seemed all the more creepy by contrast with the index's behavior during the first three Eisenhower years: twitching upward in some months and downward in others, it gained only .7 from early 1953 to early...
...death of Perdicarris, sent a cruiser to Morocco and the same day a cable to the Sultan saying: 'I want Perdicarris alive or Rasuli dead. I sent a cruiser to Morocco today.' Perdicarris was released immediately.*The attention of the children will be called to the contrast of the course taken by the great Roosevelt with that of Franklin Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, which has won the contempt and derision of the world...
Kendrick's book is one of two new case studies of catastrophe; the second concerns the collapse of Scotland's famed Tay Bridge, more than 100 years after the Lisbon quake. The two books make a fascinating contrast in the changing moral fashions surrounding disaster...