Word: contrasts
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...star teams had to contend with defenses that had adjusted during the second round of the Ivy schedule. Taylor was Dartmouth’s high scorer in 20 of its 29 games. Princeton’s Meghan Cowher led the Tigers in scoring 20 times out of 28.Harvard, by contrast, had six different players lead the team in scoring last year. Perhaps more telling: Harvard was the only Ivy team with three players who averaged double digits in scoring last year. And the Crimson ran away with the Ivy crown.No matter the pedigree of the Player of the Year award...
...difference is that The Producers had a solid, even ingenious, comic storyline - about a Broadway producer who sets out to create a bomb show so he can run off with all the investors' money. Young Frankenstein is, by contrast, mainly a series of goofs on old horror-movie clichés - gags that don't resonate as well on stage, and that lack the comic propulsion that keeps The Producers moving along. That puts a lot more burden on the usual Brooksian jokes about big knockers and small penises - which, as a result, seem more desperate this time around...
...velvet or silk, the feathers and insect wings, corals and shells as brilliant as when they were first pinned into cork-lined drawers or stowed in boxes and jars. Stacey, who shot with film and scanned the images into a computer, says she limited her digital intervention to boosting contrast or deep-etching outlines. "I'm trying to give the sense that it is there in front of you. It's not the actual object, but it's as close as I can make...
...committed member of a rebel army. Alone in front of a wall scrawled with “I will die for Darfur,” she describes her new reality: “I have learned to fight. It is like drinking water.” Simple cuts contrast the people’s colorful clothes and silent faces with the landscape of unburied skeletons and charred bed frames. As the film draws to a close, the mood swings upwards. Sterling’s Santa Monica petitioning and Cheadle’s celebrity efforts lead to a California divestment bill...
...voltage produced by their Gallic counterparts, Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, in New England over the summer. Madame Sarkozy, then on the verge of leaving her husband, turned down an invitation to a barbecue with the Bushes in Kennebunkport, Maine, claiming she was ill. Frau Merkel and Herr Sauer, by contrast, enjoy a more settled partnership, which is unlikely to offer the sort of fodder for speculation that the Sarkozys did. In marriage, as in transatlantic politics, the less news the better...