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Word: counterpoint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the start, something is wrong. Two songs go by without Lydia's signature guitar playing and manic singing. The music is stripped down farther than Teenage Jesus dared go without losing their punk audience. The bass carries most of the melody. Piano and saxophone add counterpoint. Slow, crashing drums deemphasize the Teenage approach even more...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: Dada for Lunch | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Boycott That Might Rescue the Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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