Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kneecaps with undiminished fervor. But trivialities and stereotypes aside, Reid still manages to entertain: his federal agents and seductresses, while quite familiar, are still endearing. And his friendly collection of priests--even though they don't act like any priests this reviewer has run across--are an interesting contrast to the Barry Fitzgerald-Bing Crosby model that has been floating around American fiction for too long...
...enough of a plot to give his idea any weight, and what little there is is far too flimsy to bear the tensions Mamet imposes. A tacked-on existential conclusion to a mundane drama about the values of the urban lower class is just too much of a contrast. Had Mamet stuck to one theme or another, the conclusion might have made more sense...
...they confronted Begin, and it took them a while to appreciate the phenomenon. When Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, for instance, talks of his people and their struggle to survive, his terms of reference are the wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967, the crises he has personally known. Begin, by contrast, speaks with equal feeling not only about the Holocaust but about the Exodus and the destruction of Solomon's Temple. When Dayan talks about Egyptians, he regards them as the warriors who have fought the Jews over the past three decades. Begin views Sadat as heir to the pharaohs...
Crimson diving coach John Walker was not too happy with Harvard's performance on the low board, but said, "On the high board we were fabulous by contrast...
...this state of vegetation, such a contrast from the '60s, that demands a Constitutional Convention. As Pericles told his public-minded Athenians 2500 years...