Word: contrasts
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...trio of mutant figures grimace, snarl and bark. In two of them, the most expressive feature is the gaping mouth. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted by him are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim. In Bacon's pictures, the windows of the soul - not that he believed in the soul - always have the curtains drawn...
...contrast, the New Innovator grant targets young scientists who have received their doctoral degrees in the past 10 years. Four of the 31 in this category, who will receive $1.5 million over five years, are part of the Harvard faculty...
...little I was consuming." Through about eight months, Chameides reckons he's kept a little more than 30 lbs. of trash - most of which dates back to the first couple months of the year, before he got the hang of not taking out the trash. The average American, by contrast, would have passed 1,000 lbs by now. (You can keep track of the trash that Chameides is not throwing out on his blog.) When the year is up, Chameides says he'll probably have to send his collected waste to the landfill and the recycling center, but the simple...
...puts special pressure on down-ballot candidates. Voters traditionally gather information about local races and ballot initiatives late in a campaign cycle. With less time to define themselves and their opponents, local candidates may end up spending more money to cycle quickly through "meet the candidate" commercials and then contrast and attack ads before voting starts...
...stonewall-and-stall strategy could pose a danger for Palin, since the findings will likely be the same regardless of whether the staffers - or the First Dude - testify. And all she will have accomplished by not cooperating is to have looked evasive, in contrast to her very effective branding as a proponent of reform and transparency in government...