Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cries and Whispers. By direct contrast with the starkness of his Persona-period films, this is easily the most visually lush Bergman movie I have seen. But the rich colors and textures of the large Victorian house that serve as the setting of the drama only accent all the more disturbing. Bergman's story of the psychological dynamics between a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters that look after her in her final weeks. The flashback sequences in this film are some of the most cruel and haunting that Bergman has ever realized...
...fascists, Mitford has some hilarious stories about what happened when members of her family met up with members of her party. For instance, the members of the San Francisco cell were just as awed by Jessica's sister as any other American would have been. Fortunately, Mitford finds the contrast between her upperclass background and her proletarian aims as funny as the reader, and as a result her memoirs never drift entirely into dry political discussion...
...points separated the top four candidates: Koch, 20%; Cuomo, 19%; Beame, 18%; Abzug, 17%. For Koch, 52, and Cuomo, 45, the first-round results meant a tough play-off for their party's nomination. The two come from similar backgrounds, agree on more substantive questions than not, and contrast mostly in their personalities and styles...
...contrary, the council maintains, the family's function has dwindled ever since the 18th century, when the group acted as a self-sufficient agricultural unit. Then, chores performed by children contributed to the economic well-being of the family; now, by contrast, kids are an enormous drain on their parents-each costing, by conservative estimate, at least $35,000 to support just through high school. Furthermore, as children spend increasing amounts of time outside the home, the parent is reduced to being a "coordinator without voice or authority...
...medicine. Parents and proponents of midwifery are voluble on the subject of money, however. In California, for instance, the cost of having a baby has risen from $16 per hospital day in 1950 to $175 in 1976, and now stands at about $1,500 per birth. By contrast, the cost of birth at midwife-run institutions like the Los Angeles Childbirth Center is as little as $300. The California department of consumer affairs asserts that even if only 10% of needy parents were allowed to use Medi-Cal money to pay licensed midwives, the state would save $10 million...