Word: counterpoint
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...Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also, of course, a brilliant musician, frequently playing his harp in serious concerts and always using it as a soothing counterpoint to his impish movie imagery...
Last week a state supreme-court justice rejected a P.A.T. petition to force, in effect, a referendum on the board's plan to integrate ten schools this year by "pairing." P.A.T. promptly threatened a white boycott of the schools on opening day next week-a move that would counterpoint the Negroes' paralyzing one-day boycott last February...
SPAIN. Old World elegance in breezy modern decor. Murals by avant-garde artists grace the interior, a bronze monk by Sculptor Pablo Serrano stands in the garden. The art gallery displays old masters, modern masters and, perhaps, future masters. Three Picassos, a Miro and two Dalis counterpoint Goya's majas and works by El Greco, Ribera and Velasquez...
...Gold, Lemas' girl. A party member, she isn't a dedicated Communist or a dedicated anything-else. She joined the party because she thought its ideals were beautiful, although she disliked standing on street corner selling the Worker. She is devoted to Lemas and her idealism is the perfect counterpoint for his realism. To her, a secret service agent he must kill is a man, better than many of Lemas' own associates. To him, he is an enemy to be killed, and killing is a job that must be done...
...cowardice. In one panic, Lahr scrambles halfway up the proscenium arch and hangs there, glaring down in 20-foot-high dudgeon at the scoundrels who have treed him. Throughout the musical, he emits those lecherous gurgles, dying squawks and goosy yelps that used to be the cheek-in-tongue counterpoint to vaudeville, and burlesque. What makes Lahr the king of clowns is, above all, his masterly word-and-action timing, as when he off-handedly tosses a bag of lead pellets to his Eskimo retinue and says with ineffable Lahrgesse: "Get yourself some chocolate-covered blubber...