Word: counterpoint
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...flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began at the Sun, one of Australia's oldest cinemas, in Broome, Western Australia, and in Dreams it is the medium which mediates a century of darkness...
...telling tool ever created–even more powerful than the cinema because in games you can actually become a character in the drama,” Churness writes in an e-mail.It is a tool whose influence is becoming increasingly pronounced. Bagley sees the Christian gaming industry as a counterpoint to a stagnant video game industry that will take off in the next ten years.“Though Christian blockbusters like ‘The Passion of the Christ’ [weren’t] what motivated us to do what we’re doing, [they have] perhaps...
...there isn’t enough to hold our attention in the plot’s present. The never-ending whirl of parties and holidays, buoyed on a golden wash of champagne over barely concealed nervous breakdowns, has enough energy to propel the book on its own.Lending a delicate counterpoint to the glitter and noise, the supremely articulate yet supremely uncertain Nick drifts on the current, avoiding neither the glare of his hosts’ spotlights nor the murk of their secret shames. As his surname implies, Nick is forever a “Guest”: a creature...
...news, and found nothing to stop him from joining. "I'm not condoning everything they do but the Arab media is a key part of national security and how to deal with Arab world. The network has long been the only one in the region with a point-counterpoint approach, where many others are 'point-point-point.' Al Jazeera, for example regularly has Israeli spokespeople on." Rushing says the State Department and Pentagon have both shown interest in working with the new network...
...DIED. SHANA ALEXANDER, 79, witty, trailblazing journalist and author; in Hermosa Beach, California. The first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...