Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier the Better. Syed sees still another benefit. Until now, he notes, many women with a suspicious lump in the breast have been extremely reluctant to go to a doctor for fear they would quickly wind up under the knife. By contrast, implants offer them a less menacing option, which may encourage them to seek help earlier-and early treatment, whatever the technique, is still the best way to beat breast cancer...
Bartell, by contrast, has a tendency to rely overly on her technique, to think her part rather than feel it. During Eleanor's more controlled moments, she seems to be measuring the beats between words, savoring her lines purely as poetry rather than as expressions of character. Still, when Bartell lets go, as she does at the height of her confrontations with Henry, she is stunning. Her range grandly encompasses comic high-spiritedness and tragic disillusionment, and when she tells Henry she still adores him, every word wrenched out of her as though by a rack, her body, face...
...from dull. Daniel Sherman plays John, Henry's favorite, very broadly, with an almost farcical glee. As "the family nothing," nicknamed a "walking pustule" by his brother Richard, Sherman gets to deliver such prize lines as "You turd." and "You're a stinker and you stink." In contrast to Sherman's comic posturing, Eric Luftman acts Richard Lionheart, Eleanor's darling, with straight-faced sobriety. Whether stiffly demanding his rights or reviling the rest of the family, he is a model of sullen, subdued rage. In between is Geoffrey (Jon Goerner), all "cogs and gears," the son nobody loves. Goerner...
...plane's noise level has almost always been below what most experts regard as the threshold of aural pain. Many of the airport's neighbors have even phoned in complaints about the Concorde when the offending craft has actually been a distinctly subsonic DC-9. In contrast to the high-pitched whine of a Boeing 707 or 747, the Concorde produces a throaty low-frequency rumble that rattles dishes and bric-a-brac. One FAA report notes that irritating though this is to airport neighbors, these vibrations have less impact on the structure of a house or apartment...
...point in her interviews she distributed black midi-length dresses to her several female aides and demanded that they wear them at dinner that night. She had her own collection of "bourgeois" films by such foreign stars as Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin. All this is in marked contrast to the dreary, controlled socialist culture and drab unisexual clothes that she helped to impose on China's masses. Hardly a surprise that in the current campaign against her, Chiang Ch'ing's love of luxury is a major charge against her. She did not seem...