Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast between the on-location San Francisco exteriors, where the rest of the film unfolds, and the period sets for the Victorian England scenes, captures nicely the disparate tone of the two eras: the sheltered, made-to-order past versus the open, anything-goes present. Meyer makes good use of the city, staging a riveting chase over San Francisco's split-level belvederes and sky-ways. Not that Wells spends all his time chasing Stevenson. Romance blooms in the person of Amy, an aggressive bank-executive who takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells...
...been in Congress 16 years. His major premise, or goal, has been to establish a comprehensive national health insurance policy for our country. He is chairman of the health subcommittee in the Senate. He's never gotten a comprehensive health bill out of his subcommittee." And by contrast, Carter could have cited one major example of his own legislative success last week: the passage (17 months after it was sent to Congress by the White House) of his bill to create a new Department of Education...
...most dissatisfied by the previous administration. Echeverria, for example, was considered a conservative before assuming office; but he launched a leftist "democratic opening" to defuse the mounting pressure for social and economic reform that had exploded into riots and bloodshed during Diaz Ordaz's regime. López Portillo, in contrast, has worked hardest at wooing disaffected conservatives who were angered by Echeverria. But he has also sought to create new opportunities for opposition political parties?without, of course, threatening the P.R.I.'s overwhelming power. A minimum of 100 of the 400 seats in an expanded chamber of deputies...
...contrast between the matter-of-fact peacefulness of the scene and our own anxiety was almost beyond bearing. At 4 p.m. we would know whether the agony endured by so many for nearly a decade would have purchased an honorable end to the war in Viet...
...runners. The team has to post some sustained ground drives to give the defense a chance to rest. Najarian must be stopped--or at least muzzled. B.U. is a power team. In three games the Terriers have racked up 100 points and more than 1100 total yards. Harvard, by contrast, has scored 33 points and racked up 600 yards...