Word: complementation
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...Producer Sam Spiegel saw, and heard, the movie, and thought Jarre could be helpful in finding an aural complement to Lean's sand-swept tribute to T.E. Lawrence. As Stephen M. Silverman tells it in his excellent Lean biography, Spiegel had originally wanted Lawrence to have three composers: Jarre would do the dramatic music, while Aram Khachaturian scored the Arab scenes and Benjamin Britten the English. When those two estimable gents proved unavailable, Spiegel corralled Richard Rodgers into writing an Arabian motif and a "love theme" - for an all-male movie. Sanity eventually prevailed: the not-so-well-known Frenchman...
...Intermix also owned a majority stake in a fast-growing website - Myspace.com - which had attracted an impressive 17.7 million visitors the prior month. A consummate salesman, [Intermix CEO Richard] Rosenblatt focused his comments on the potential of adding MySpace's broad audience to complement Rupert Murdoch's already enviable empire of top-flight media companies...
...Fifty On Our Foreheads,” this tendency to wax melancholic is superseded by pulsing snare and bass, which transitions from an unassuming introduction to an uplifting finale. Opening with a soothing interplay between the swirling tones of the omnipresent synthesizer and pacing drums as the perfect complement to McVeigh’s initially understated tonalities, the track suddenly progresses into an exhilarating and momentous thrill ride that awakens the listener from what has otherwise been a rather lethargic and long-winded reverie on morbidity. Alas, a song that succeeds both lyrically and musically is a rarity. This discrepancy...
...Roberts is] a great pitcher—when she’s on, and her arm is healed and all better, she’ll be a good closer,” Vertovez explains. “And [Black’s] a good complement for Rachel and [me], who throw mostly rise balls. We’ll have Margaux come in, who throws mostly drop balls, and throw them...
This is a point I hear over and over again: that while it is difficult to balance music and academics, the two complement each other. Cameron, who concentrates in Music, and Koh, who concentrates in Biology, both commented on this fundamental benefit of the Harvard/NEC program...