Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, the Olympic crew seem like wholly admirable free spirits - and the match is not a fair one. Joe Santo is a connoisseur of cut glass, an accomplished fiddle player and something of an out-of-pocket philosopher. "I don't believe in getting too comfortable," he tells Craig. "Stay hungry...
...Communist ascendancy is not merely a product of Christian Democratic weakness. The PCI now participates in five regional governments and in the municipal governments of all the major cities north of Rome. There it has been able to provide effective and honest public administration, in sharp contrast to the DC's dismal record. More importantly, the PCI stands for an "Italian road to socialism" sharply distinct from the Soviet model...
...Quincy House production succeeds best as an unresolved confrontation between a tortured man and a hostile world. Judith Swan's lighting is a simple contrast of brights and blackouts. The triptych designed by Roger Bardwell to represent the army barracks, doctor's office, and Woyzeck's home is appropriately pared down to a few wooden chairs and tables. The director's blocking is often awkward, but the physical, and frequently brutal, interactions of the characters on a practically bare stage produce powerful moments...
...said and done, Soldiers Field Park will have 480 apartments, a parking garage, a small grocery store, study areas, plazas and playgrounds, all for the exclusive use of what the Real Estate Office calls Harvard Affiliates. It's the University's most ambitious building project in some time--by contrast, Pusey Library cost $8 million--and it's supposed to fill the housing needs of faculty, staff and graduate students...
...four leads. The role of Elsie, the youthful ideal of maidenhood, is a flat one to begin with, and Ellen Burkhardt offers little more than freshness and smiles to fill it out; but her voice is so stirring and powerful that it overwhelms any deficiencies in her acting. By contrast, Linda Anne Kirwan is a gifted comedienne, handling the part of Pheobe with real comic flair and singing well, if less vigorously than her rival. Roberto Gaston makes an extraordinarily winning Fairfax, with his broad toothy grin, strong tenor and charming Gilbertian sense of the absurd...