Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reginald's antics appear strained largely in contrast to the effortlessness which seems to mark Seltzer's characterization of Reginald's rival in love, the more spiritual Archibald. When he glides on stage to declare his affections for Patience, his infanthood sweetheart, Seltzer makes us keenly aware of what most of the other actors have been doing wrong. With a remarkable economy of movement and gesture, he skillfully conveys the fundamental absurdity of Archibald's unhappy narcissism, evoking laughs simply by a raised eyebrow or changed inflection...
...contrast, the new Democratic Movement for Change seems to have too many leaders rather than...
Allen gives himself a wonderfully comic urban background, Jewish and lower-class; the family home stands -shakily-beneath the Coney Island roller coaster. It is all in hopeless contrast with her Wasp Middle Westernism. When the pair finally get to L.A., Allen refuses to see it, as most recent movies have, as merely spaced out. To him, it is actively malevolent-the biggest clogged drain of them...
Overseas, the going has been a bit rougher. In Europe, McDonald's management learned belatedly that, in contrast to the U.S., the customers are nearly all in the cities. Though McDonald's now has 467 stores in 22 foreign markets, the majority are company-owned or joint ventures, and the international operation will not become truly profitable until franchising begins in earnest -as it is about to in Germany, Australia and Japan. Says Chairman Fred Turner: "Who [in Europe] is marketing to the family for a reasonably priced meal away from home? There isn't anyone. There...
...disappointingly uneven. In part two (1760-1820), Gordon S. Wood discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according to contemporary accounts, thousands fell into frenzied ecstasies. Wood captures none of its manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with society while...