Word: counterpoint
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...accompanied by a suggestively shaped silo on the left. Unlike their marine counterparts, both these women look weary; the phallic and inhospitable city thrust upon their delicate complexions. Clergue’s recent “Nu Zébré” series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked open just enough to cast thin stripes of light on a female model. The blinds filter the light in long straight lines...
...personal setbacks have merely been the counterpoint to the larger policy reversals Cheney has suffered in internal debates in the past year. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is executing an unmistakable course correction in U.S. foreign policy, quietly stepping away from the strident and unilateral positions of the neoconservatives and cutting deals with - or opening lines to - the remaining members of the axis of evil. Backed by a strong new team of career diplomats, Rice prevailed on Iraq to invite Iran to a regional conference on security and then swiftly agreed to attend, unwinding Washington's vow just...
...Pelosi's first challenge is similar to Ford's, and may provide the same kind of disappointment: To succeed, she needs to provide a solid counterpoint to the corruption and arrogance that doomed the G.O.P. Yet the Democrats' "100-hour agenda" already entails suspending the gauzy promise of bipartisan civility that moderate Democrats ran on. Rather, the Democrats will use House rules to prohibit opposition measures - the exact sort of "tyranny of the majority" that the former minority party has been railing against for years. Whatever the stage set (tea or Mass), the week ahead will likely be less...
...settled on the chicken next, in a piquant tomato and red pepper sauce. The lamb was the least unique of the three meat dishes, and therefore finished third. The veggie dish of potatoes, carrots, and green beans in a yellow lentil sauce was mild and unobjectionable, and a valuable counterpoint to their more highly spiced platter-mates. The meal as a whole was more than satisfying, and the experience was well worth the $22.26 apiece. We chatted with our server after paying, and she told us that all of the restaurant’s five or six employees had come...
...order for their approach to music to approximate that of big-screen undertakings. In the film world, soundtracks run in both directions, from hit-packed rosters of foreground music—think “Bad Boys II”—to the painstaking counterpoint of Yo La Tengo’s score for recent indie showpiece “Old Joy.”Video games are much the same, and what many are ignoring is that they have been for years.In contrast to the blaring heavy-metal, pop punk, and rap lineups of such popular series...