Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designer André Courrèges, by contrast, showed a collection that was more like a countdown, with models' hair cropped to the cranium, their faces often masked behind huge white plastic goggles, and a display of far-out fashions that swung down the runways to the way-in beat of progressive jazz. As befits the designer who is known as the idea man of the Paris collections, Courrèges came through with eye-poppers aplenty-flesh-colored leotards beneath embroidered net slacks, ten-gallon hats, skirts cut three inches above the knee-gimmicky, but none of them...
...Snow is a place of contrast with its nine chair lifts and slopes that range from expert to cow pasture, complete with snow bunnies that splash in the heated outdoor swimming pool at Snow Lake Lodge during the day and gambol in the lounges of several lodges at night...
...guerilla warfare. The Viet Cong have paid much closer attention to their handbook than their Viot Minh counterparts in the days of war against the French; in particular there have been no set piece battles except Binh Gia and peasant indoctrination has been much more sophisticated. In the contrast of a (brilliant) masterplan, the May 2nd Committee's statement becomes mere distortions...
...background of Giovanni's Sicilian wanderings are the gigantic industrial complex in which he works and the windmills and huts of the peasants. Olmi makes a point of the contrast, but he makes it gently. The two contests through which Giovanni wanders, yet in which he has no roots accentuate his loneliness, and contribute to the pervasive sadness which is part of the sense of life that Olmi communicates...
...comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from...