Word: counterpoint
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Over at the World Economic Forum, the Davos chieftains were predicting prosperity and a new Europe, so the shows made a fitting counterpoint. Couture is, after all, the last outpost of a very Old Europe style of commerce--the essence of antiglobalism and anti--mass production. Where else in the world is something so extravagant and intricate made on the individual body of each customer? "Fashion should not just be a marketing exercise," sniffed Ines de la Fressange, a former Chanel model who is directing the relaunch of a line of couture shoes inspired by the famous shoemaker Roger Vivier...
...theory and social practice alike.” Yet for a course dedicated to examining issues critically, surprisingly the tutorial’s syllabus lacks any semblance of a critical voice—none of Mansfield’s work on gender studies, nothing from Edmund Burke (a good counterpoint to John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women) or Phyllis Schlafly...
...mother and raised by a Serbian father, constitutes the traditional cosmopolitaness of that once most tolerant city. The mark of the Sarajevan, Neven says, is "a mixture of so many things: a love of art; a love of other people; and an amount of sarcasm and irony." Sacco, in counterpoint, accompanies this mythic passage with a full-page image of a dark, lifeless, abandoned space between blasted out buildings. Through Neven's personal history Sacco gives us the inside story of fighting against the Serbs during the siege. This job fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords...
...tracks, the strings of San Francisco's acclaimed Kronos Quartet. But the songs are really designed to showcase the range of moods and colors in Traoré's own voice. On Mariama, a stirring call-and-response duet with veteran Ousmane Sacko, she provides the velvety counterpoint to his rough edges. On Manian, a searching song about poverty in which she asks, "What have I done to deserve such a life/ Who have I offended in heaven?", she begins with a matter-of-fact resignation familiar to anyone who has spent time in Africa, then unleashes a spellbinding...
This is particularly evident in his most recent books. Both his Arcady and My Mojave have recurring words and images that act as motifs throughout the book. Within individual poems, Revell uses language to form recapitulation, theme and counterpoint, leading many critics to compare his pieces to elegies or hymns...