Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pages, the Referral mentions Whitewater, the failed land deal which originated its investigation, twice. It never once mentions other issues it has been investigating for years--matters concerning the firing of employees of the White House travel office and the controversy surrounding the FBI files. By contrast, the issue of sex is mentioned more than 500 times, in the most graphic, salacious and gratuitous manner...
Unlike Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President Jiang Zemin maintains tight political control. The reform-minded Zhu might take some heat if the currency sinks, but in contrast to the unruly Duma, China's pliant National People's Congress is not going to threaten a constitutional crisis...
Although the technique yielded a relatively meager harvest of up to 300,000 sperm for each attempt (in contrast to 100 million or more in a natural ejaculation), the results were impressive. Of 14 pregnancies involving couples who wanted girls, the researchers report, 13 produced females. Says Fugger: "We're talking about increasing your chances of getting girls five- or sixfold." No formal report has yet been published on selecting a male baby, which, to the surprise of the scientists, was not the choice of most participants. But preliminary results suggest male selection will work 65% of the time...
...those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase reaction when Murdoch bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for a piddling $350 million. Is there something Dodger fans don't know...
Frankenheimer has always liked to hold a large number of people at different depths in his frames, and that serves well the tense interplay of the actors when they're plotting and scheming. It also provides a nice contrast to the car chases that are another Frankenheimer specialty (Remember Grand Prix?). He loves sending his vehicles screeching through narrow European streets, and he apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies...