finds contrasting eras rubbing up against each other, pitching retro soul against the sound of dripping digital water.
Consider, as counterpoint to Mr. Petroski, two simple engineering triumphs from widely contrasting eras, each of which has enjoyed considerable popularity.
There is no attempt to meld the two contrasting eras.
If Colin Montgomerie is held up as the personification of the Ryder Cup, Gallacher has a claim to be just as representative of two contrasting eras.
The photographer Meryl Meisler's first monograph, "A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick," contrasts disco-era Manhattan with a devastated, post-blackout New York.
She quotes a commentator on the last days of the Roman Republic, who contrasts an era of rampant, nouveau-riche acquisitiveness to an earlier and more "patrician" age when "people used to know their place".
He may ask them to contrast that era with the improved performance of the LAPD under William Bratton, whom Mr Hahn hired.None of this, however, is going to guarantee re-election.
In contrast, ERA-923 is a novel SERM that appears to have an improved preclinical profile as compared with tamoxifen and raloxifene.
It is an irresistible reduction to contrast the eras of our former and current president as absolute opposites: one, an age of progress for all of us who've felt or feel shut out from the vast tent that is our country; the other, an age of regress.
Here it's worth contrasting the civil rights era to our own.
"America in the World Economy: From the American Century to Globalization," Lecture at the International History Institute at Boston University, in a series titled "The Short American Century, 1941-2008: Contrasting Views of the Era of American Dominance," October 8, 2009.
