Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago-area Jewel Food Stores, the items on one stretch of shelf space stand in drab contrast to the rest of the brightly colored, elaborately packaged brands. The cans and packages, in uniformly dull black, white and olive labeling, bear only the unadorned name of the product-corn flakes, tomato juice, applesauce-in blunt, stencil-like lettering. Yet these no-name groceries have become hot items, and they could herald a change in the way that Americans shop. Reason: prices of the generic-name groceries range 10% to 35% below those of comparable brand-name products, and even undercut Jewel...
...Albany, N.Y.-Statistician Tavia Gordon of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., noticed an unusual correlation. Virtually all those with heart disease-regardless of age, sex or racial background-also had reduced levels of a substance called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in their blood. By contrast, those free of atherosclerosis showed remarkably elevated HDL counts...
...necessity of a quality cigar ("A Good Cigar is a Smoke") to the merits of tradition ("Following in Father's footsteps"). These numbers are performed with applaudable gusto, as the actors prance and gesticulate in unison. Meanwhile, solo numbers like "He Reminds Her of Her Father" provide a somber contrast to all the antics. One beautifully staged moment occurs during an episode when one gent is musing over the reported infidelity of his wife. As the lights dim over wafting cigar fumes, another gentleman emerges from the wings to deliver a visceral rendition of "Vesti La Jupe" from Pagliacci...
...contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense...
...integrity. In the final scene, which mirrors the first, the figure of Fortune is lifted above an encircling crowd: the conical form consummating the angular choreography of the work's most arresting dances--the cyclical theme exulting in the deepest pattern of all bodily life. If the overriding contrast in the Boston Ballet's performance were between a great classic's ethereality and a modern work's affirmation of the senses, there could be no doubt where the Company's own preferences...