Word: discordance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing in counterpoint." It's this acceptance of counterpoint that makes Discretions a valuable work of literature as well as of memory: the acceptance that the different realities of different stages of maturity can play in the same story consecutively or all at once, in harmony or in discord. The counterpoint plays clearly as the teenaged, peasant-raised girl describes an uncomfortable visit with her father's friend, T.S. Eliot, as she is waiting for her father's release from America. "The room and his words felt chilly. After a while he went to fetch some tea....And stooping...
...message, if it can be called that, seems to be that the remedy for marital discord is a coupling in the linen closet, that rebellion is raising a ruckus at the country club, and that happiness is a discarded towel. As Turman and Scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison) go for the simple solution, they favor the easy laugh. "Relax, enjoy the air," Alren tells Lisa, and there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle...
...control three-quarters of the non-communist supply. While only 3 per cent of the U.S. supply comes from the Mid-East, the 59 per cent of Mid-East production controlled by American petroleum companies is sold to the oil-hungry nations of Western Europe and Japan. The recent discord in the Mid-East between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the large American petroleum companies underscores the economic and political importance of the potentially stable offshore Southeast-Asian supplies...
...have on a couple. Los Angeles Psychiatrist L. James Grold says that it can become a troublesome addiction, but that for some people it is "a pleasurable sharing experience." Bartell doubts that swinging really benefits anyone much. Surprisingly, he found little evidence that it was responsible for marital discord or breakup among the couples he studied. In fact, some swingers insist that the opposite is true. Their claim: "The couple that swings together stays together...
...trouble in the months ahead could slow production and start still another capital flight. But if Prime Minister Emilio Colombo can keep the country tranquil by rapidly streamlining the economy, 1971 may be a vintage year for Italian business. The European Common Market Executive Commission predicts that, barring domestic discord, Italy will have the highest growth rate of any of the six market nations...