Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan then summoned congressional leaders of both parties to the White House at 9 p.m. Sunday. He stressed that he was consulting the lawmakers before giving the final military orders, which was in contrast to his secrecy in ordering the U.S. strike against Libya in 1986. He heard no objections. At 10:05, after the congressional leaders had left, the President said to his aides...
...fact, being 39 was part of the problem. His failings were those of the young -- indecision during critical times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look less a candidate for President...
This laborious process favors contour and flatness, light-and-dark contrast rather than color, and the single iconic shape. Sultan does decoratively what an older American artist like Robert Moskowitz does grandly: by taking a familiar shape and rescaling it, mainly as profile -- one still life of an egg and three lemons on a plate is also 8 ft. square -- he slows up recognition and provokes, in the more successful paintings, a sense of strangeness...
...sharp contrast to such bows to the past was the heavy reliance on U.S.-style campaigning. Ever eager to project a youthful image, Chirac, 55, obtained endorsements from 120 leading sports figures, including Cycling Champion Jeannie Longo, and appeared at rallies with rock stars like Johnny Hallyday. He even publicized an endorsement from Actor Gregory Peck. Not to be outdone, Mitterrand supporters persuaded Veteran Crooner Charles Trenet to record a ditty called Vas-Y Tonton ("Go to It, Uncle," a play on Mitterrand's nickname, "Tonton"). Though campaign advertising is not permitted on television, the growth of privately owned channels...
...Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last Emperor, with its stern, sumptuous sprawl, more likely earned a decorous, distanced respect in a slim year. The other nominees for Best Picture were three comedies and one high-tech yuppie horror movie -- not the Academy's favorite genres. By contrast, Bertolucci's true-life fable of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, China's last monarch, had all the familiar Academy-epic goods. It rips turbulent drama from the back pages of a high school history book. It serves up an opulent visual sensibility amid exotic locales. And it concludes with a humanism...