Word: contrasts
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Caetano, 62, is a Lisbon law professor and, like Salazar, he is conservative, correct and Catholic. As such, he is acceptable to Portugal's influential generals and businessmen. But in some respects, Caetano presents a sharp contrast to Salazar. He is married and has four grown children; the former Premier is a withdrawn, painfully austere bachelor. Salazar almost never journeyed beyond Portugal's borders and has equally circumscribed intellectual horizons; Caetano has traveled widely, speaks French, reads English and has a continuing interest in cultural and intellectual developments...
...sumo champ in history, Koki Naya, a half Russian, half Japanese who weighs in at 314 Ibs. and is known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), had a bad year in 1967. He injured his left elbow and knee and was out of action for eight months. By contrast, 1967 was a banner year for Jesse Kuhaulua, a 24-year-old from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Of Polynesian-Spanish ancestry, he stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs in at 315 Ibs. and wrestles under the pseudonym of Takamiyama ("High-View Mountain"). He is the first foreigner with no Japanese...
Detroit, by contrast, streaked down the homestretch. Its pitching staff looked sharp, running off 12 straight complete games, and its hitters slugged the ball with authority...
From where I was standing, right in the middle of the crowd, I could see a clumsily-assembled group of 100 people who punctuated the speech at just the right points with tumultuous applause. The rest of the crowd, in marked contrast to the traditional ebulience of Greek political meetings, were passive. Most people around me did not applaud; people looking out of windows did nothing but glumly watch...
...works in a straight stream-of-consciousness style, using quick flashbacks intended to depict in reasonable measure the drift of his main character's mind. Sometimes these are a little irritating, but rarely more than that, and sometimes they're downright effective. Newman's use of camera is, in contrast to the fancy editing, routinely tasteful. The result is an intelligent and mildly absorbing movie of a sort not often seen nowadays. If not glistening with promise, Newman's bow as director nevertheless lacks the arrogance characteristic of a Mike Nichols or a Francis Ford Coppola, both more conventional Hollywood...