Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...import fee is only part of the equation. More telling are their differences in orientation and outlook. For all his new populist pretensions, Gephardt remains a man of the House, a legislative tactician whose vision is shaped by years of trying to assemble 218-vote majorities. Dukakis, in contrast, offers the skills of a can-do Governor who has prospered by marrying liberal goals with pinchpenny policies...
Chirac, by contrast, is such a dynamo that his handlers have tried to tone down his hard-charging image with a poster bearing the slogan COURAGE -- THAT'S CHIRAC and showing an ostensibly relaxed Premier dressed in a V-neck sweater. Moreover, he commands the formidable political machinery of the neo- Gaullist Rally for the Republic Party, which expects to spend $25 million on the campaign. Chirac is running on his record as Premier for the past two years, claiming that his government has cut unemployment rolls by 130,000, boosted economic output...
Thesiger did not return to his birthplace until 1930. Haile Selassie, a friend of his late father's, invited him to attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany...
...lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject of the movie, seriously enough to laugh at very much. McGovern, by contrast, is all pouts and whines; one could not blame her spouse if he strayed for real instead of in fantasy. Worse, Hughes' satire of suburbia is mostly as soft and comfortable as an old slipper. And his conclusion, in which he tries to work up suspense over a difficult birth, startles...
...Veritones, in contrast, were beleaguered by tuning and arrangement problems. On both "Stormy Weather" and the upbeat "Sunny," their lugubrious tempo seemed better suited to a dirge or a tune by Stephen Foster...