Word: contrasts
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...grinding poverty and constant, often violent, political infighting. Many of the country's leaders, in exile in Portugal or Mozambique during Indonesia's occupation, have aggravated the situation by failing to connect with the majority of their compatriots. Senior government officials live lives of relative luxury, in stark contrast to the lot of the vast majority of East Timorese. (Because Dili is a small town, it's not uncommon to see such officials dining in trendy Portuguese cafés situated near the poor and homeless squatting in tents.) Portuguese is the official language of the government, which means that...
...part of the show. American artist Norman Tuck offers practical but surprising demonstrations of scientific principles. In Double Helix, for example, two motor-driven copper spirals twine gently within each other until the moment they touch and reverse the motor. The machines of Russian sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, by contrast, are better read as manifestations of the troubled artist's state of mind. Now living in Glasgow, where his works are shown as a theatrical installation called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured...
...through financial necessity and intense discussions with officials across the world, Noble has developed in just four years an ever-expanding array of databases that are among the world's most efficient policing tools. That is a dizzying contrast to the methods of the 1990s, when Interpol's "red notices" - its alerts for wanted fugitives - were sent by regular mail, arriving in some police stations and border posts weeks later. To be sure, there were some famous red-notice successes, including the capture of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal) in 1994 and the American...
...which Juliet consumes the Friar’s potion. Here, Cranko takes full liberty from the Bard and brings in eight ballerinas bearing white flowers. As they dance around Juliet’s bed, Prokofiev’s score adopts the innocent chimes of carousel music, serving as effective contrast with the subsequent discovery of Juliet’s body and Lady Capulet’s grief. In the final scene, Cranko’s staging successfully rejuvenates an age-old ending to which modern audiences are inevitably desensitized. Rather than featuring two of the fastest, most un-thought-over...
...socialized medicine.” According to the poll, which was conducted with Harris Interactive, a market research firm, only 32 percent of those surveyed believe socialized medicine is a system in which “the government tells doctors what to do.” In contrast, over 70 percent interpret the term to mean that “the government makes sure everyone has health insurance” and “the government pays most of the cost of health care...