Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to keep a Harvard education from becoming passive and slack, we must try to balance lectures with a constant counterpoint of papers, seminars, tutorials, and discussion sections where students must first make use of what they have read and heard by developing their own thoughts and then expose their work to the scrutiny of more mature minds. These are the experiences most likely to help students think more clearly and precisely yet it is these experiences that are most endangered across the country by huge enrollments and tight financial constraints...
...counterpoint, Representative Schulze claimed that the average cost of a business lunch in his district was $3.29 -just enough, as one committee observer estimated, for two Big Macs and a drink...
Ross' film blazes no new trails, and most of the film's compelling appeal can be traced to the strength of the acting. MacLaine's earthy housewife provides a gritty counterpoint to Bancroft's cosmopolitan artiste, and Baryshnikov's limited role makes no undue demands on his fledgling talents in front of a camera. His virility and sheer presence suffice for the portrayal of the compulsive narcissist stud in the company, and his dancing will predictably astound moviegoers unfamiliar with the awesome talents of Nureyev's successor. While Browne is relegated to the imposing shadow cast by Baryshnikov's virtuoso...
...colleagues. Strang senses the sexual and emotional impotence of his putative healer, using his instinctive acumen as a weapon to retaliate against Dysart's incursions into his own psyche. Strang's special qualities compound the difficulty of the shrink's task; the adolescent's mercurial nature furnishes a painful counterpoint to his doctor's sterile intellectualism. Strang forces Dysart to tackle his own neuroses--which seem so pallid by comparison--while grappling with the wrenching monomania of the young patient. He is, in a clinical sense, the judge and the judged, by his own will...
...into a few bedrooms as well. But somewhere along the way, Westerby begins thinking unsoldierish thoughts, railing not only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training and beliefs. What results is an intense emotional conflict to play counterpoint to the usual shoot-em-up spy duel, a remarkable spy story that ruthlessly dissects the tortured moral rationalizations that make up the mind of a cloak-and-dagger king...