Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angrily dismissed the reports as "threadbare inventions" of the "bourgeois press." A Tass commentary also contained a thinly veiled reprimand to Tito for lending credence to the rumors that the Soviet Union had been interfering in Yugoslavia's domestic affairs. In a characteristic display of the point-and-counterpoint diplomacy that keeps Yugoslavia straddled between East and West, Tito began backtracking...
Ford's hard-edged speech proved to be an appropriate thematic counterpoint to the opening address of General Assembly President Bouteflika. At 37, the Algerian Foreign Minister not only is the youngest person ever to occupy the seat but also appears to be among the least neutral in his sympathies. Bouteflika's opening address scored imperialism in Southeast Asia, an obvious reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence...
...counterpoint between steel and paint did not always come off, but Smith's effort to make it work was an integral part of American art history. Greenberg's decision to posthumously destroy the evidence of what he considered Smith's "failure" was, one must in charity assume, directed by sincere aesthetic motives - just as John Ruskin's posthumous burning of "pornographic" watercolors by J.M.W. Turner in the 19th century was sincerely meant to protect Turner's moral reputation...
...steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three U.S. sculptors best fitted to handle large outdoor projects...
...series of grunts), the couple are co-equal as characters, and the contrast between them is anything but insignificant. Each character presents alternative ways of facing this vale of tears, and Beckett's play only begins to make sense as an exploration of the human condition when the counterpoint of their relationship is fully established...