Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, it was mostly an elderly group (70% were 55 or older) who paid up to $2,500 each to fly the 7,100 miles from Los Angeles to Las Palmas, where they were to board the M.S. Golden Odyssey for a twelve-day "Mediterranean Highlights" cruise. The congenial tourists, including about 40 from the affluent retirement community of Leisure World near Laguna Hills, Calif, had some 75 unexpected extra minutes to get acquainted at Los Angeles International Airport when their charter flight was delayed. Roy L. Dorcich, 70, told Jim Naik, 37, an officer of the Royal Cruise Line...
...large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts. "We have other uses for the brick and iron." The nearby bird cage, by contrast, is the center of activity in the park. On the afternoon of our arrival, a squad of preteenage girls, dressed in uniforms consisting of white blouses and black trousers and wearing the red bandannas of the Pioneer Communist Youth Organization, marched around the cage. Three off-duty soldiers in green...
...contrast, Linda Kirwan's Natasha longs to break from her bounds. While Kirwan's impetuosity seems appropriate for the romantic 17-year old girl she is at the beginning, her emotions are too wild for the older, sincerely repentant woman who later begs Andrei for forgiveness...
...part of the show. More surprising was what the hypnotist said after proving that Schmulders was hypnotized. "The stunts are for you skeptics," the hypnotist said. "Now Olga, I want you to relax completely and to think of all the wonderful feelings which you have now," he said, in contrast to his earlier tricks. "Tomorrow, you will concentrate harder on what you study, and you will pursue your interests more avidly because now you know that you can succeed. You will tell yourself that without even thinking about it from this point...
...Albert Innaurato's sensibility operating from a totally different angle of vision, one needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...