Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understands both genres. In Soprano Teresa Stratas (Violetta) and Tenor Placido Domingo (Alfredo), he has chosen two exceptionally convincing singing actors. But film also demands motion, sweep and scope, so at intense moments the camera breaks free of its traditional front-row-center moorings and begins to roam. As counterpoint to Alfredo's second-act aria, in which he ardently-if prematurely-credits Violetta's love with taming his fiery spirit, there is a gentle pastorale of lovers picnicking on the grass and gamboling by a stream. Later, a spurned Domingo angrily drags Stratas down a long corridor...
Knowles brings a solid and rich baritone to the part of Figaro, the mischievous valet who fears for his fiancee's faithfulness and suspects his master, the Count, of designs upon her. The finance, Susanna--sung by Eileen McNamara--complements him perfectly with a soaring soprano. In counterpoint to their stratagems and quarrels, the Count Almaviva (Mitchell C. Warren) and his wife (Elizabeth Walsh) accuse each other of infidelities, trap each other into admissions, and argue endlessly over the fate of the pageboy Cherubino, who adores the Countess...
Watt's remarks in two interviews made public last week were no exception to this rule. On the cable TV program "Conservative Counterpoint," Watt claimed that Indian reservations exemplify the failures of Russian-style socialism. Watt argued that Indians' dependence on government handouts explain the reservations' high rates of alcoholism, unemployment, and venereal disease...
...allies are indispensable, but the relationship that will determine the course of world diplomacy is that between the U.S. and the Soviets. In the first week of the new Kremlin leadership, that crucial face-off has taken a small turn for the better. But already, there is a cacophonous counterpoint to the gentle mood music: TASS, the official Soviet news agency, huffed that Shultz's press conference indicated that the Reagan Administration remains committed to "a course of confrontation." If the new civility is not to give way once again to angry rhetoric, flexible and imaginative diplomacy will...
...clear, however, how that fact affects the event's legitimacy. A series of angry, polemical arguments presenting extremist views would not, in our opinion, lend itself to the atmosphere of conciliation and compromise that we hoped to create in this conference. Our aim was education through discussion, not point-counterpoint. This does not mean that our speakers are "homogeneous": every MEEP organizational meeting was characterized by heated debate over the choice of speakers, and the ultimate line-up was determined as much by the limited number of Jews and Palestinians available and willing to speak together on this issue...