Word: dissimilarity
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French Actress Catherine Deneuve is only 24, but she is already a veteran of 22 films in which she has been seduced almost as often as Bardot. She is also France's fastest-rising female star, and is currently on view in the U.S. in three thoroughly dissimilar films. Benjamin is a frivolous froth of a costume piece, dedicated to the proposition that upper-class sex in 18th century France was frisky, witty, pretty and piquant. The Young Girls of Roche fort, a disappointing follow-up to Jacques Demy's ethereal The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, is a treacly...
...longtime friend of Critic Sir Herbert Read and Sculptor Henry Moore. Under Penrose, ICA pioneered in giving major shows to artists from abroad, including Picasso, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier and Dubuffet. For artists at home, it served as both sounding board and workshop, provided a setting for painters as dissimilar as Francis Bacon and Ben Nicholson. In the '50s, it presided over the birth of British...
...West German city of Braunschweig owes its reputation to a pair of dissimilar products: smoked liverwurst and Rolleiflex cameras. To the dismay of the 48-year-old family firm of Rollei-Werke, Franke & Heidecke, the cameras have proved the more perishable of the two. Although Rollei's famed twin-lens reflex practically revolutionized photography when it was introduced in 1929, business began to go stale in the late '50s when its patents ran out, cheap imitations rolled in, and Rollei was caught without new developments...
...rhythm with his right hand while flicking unobtrusive signals with his left-yet he radiates authority. His solid reputation as a traditionalist does not diminish the currents of conviction and warmth that he stirs into a composition. Armed with a wide repertory, he is equally effective in music as dissimilar as Mozart and Bartok...
...ought to have been declined by an artist who is these days the chief spokesman for monumentality. Three years of brooding brought forth only a far worse alternative than the obvious ones, an unmatched pair, too much like each other to be thought of apart, yet too wildly dissimilar to form a simple design...