Word: counterpoint
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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...
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...
...spend most of their time in a house on the edge of London. They also own an establishment in Gloucestershire consisting of eight houses spread over 52 acres. Entwistle's songs, which are like nightshade valentines, show up on Who albums often as a kind of bleakly bemused counterpoint to Townshend's. He is also a skilled caricaturist and is now drawing A Cartoon History of The Who. In this work, Entwistle made up imaginary ancestors for each of the band members based on some of their salient characteristics. There is, for example, a certain Wild Bill Daltrey, a tightwad...
...find that the well quickly goes dry, but Goodman shows no sign of flagging. She recently completed a six-month stint as a guest commentator on NBC'S Today show, and now is said to be a leading contender to replace Shana Alexander as half of the "Point-Counterpoint" team on CBS's 60 Minutes. If she does, she insists, it won't be to joust with Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick, as Alexander did. "Debate polarizes, and everything I've tried to do is the opposite-to find the connections, not the differences," says Goodman. "Besides...
...twelve-tone system to rework the old, large-scale forms of Wagner and Brahms. Webern used it to abolish those forms, along with the entire principle of elaboration and climax. He let his three-or four-note motives suggest their own, rather static structural implications through intricate counterpoint and variation-not development. ''Once stated,'' he said, ''the theme expresses all it has to say.'' By relating everything else to that theme, he attempted to achieve ''an all-embracing unity...