Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amin Dada, It's difficult to imagine a film which could make Idi Amin look good, but this one does, if only by contrast to the director's superficial and racist approach. Focussing almost entirely on Amin talking, the film portrays him as a fat African who speaks pidgin English, looks awfully funny in Western dress, and has delusions of grandeur. What needs to be remembered while watching this inane spectacle is that the man is a mass murderer whose caprises are only slightly more barbaric than his policies, and that many atrocities were undoubtedly going on while Barbet Schroeder...
Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults...
...ceiling-high mountain of tenth-edition Samuelson "Economics" texts stood in contrast to the empty shelves from which several hundred copies of Morrison and Boyd's "Organic Chemistry" had already disappeared...
...were African women in colorful batik skirts; behind, a group of Peruvians. There were grim North Koreans, many in military uniforms, Rumanians, Yugoslavs and thin-faced Albanians, as well as wiry Vietnamese and diminutive Cambodians; all had black armbands and were dressed in their formal best-in bald contrast to the Chinese, who wore their ordinary jackets and pants of baggy cotton...
...garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur. His humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr...