Word: counterpoint
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...ended the latest communique from the kidnapers of Patricia Hearst, the California publishing heiress who was nearing the end of her third week in the clutches of the violently leftist fringe group that calls itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. On the other side of the nation, in grim ideological counterpoint, a man who identified himself as a "colonel" in a far-right "army" abducted John Reginald (Reg) Murphy, the soft-spoken editorial-page editor and columnist of the Atlanta Constitution. Among the eventual plans of the American Revolutionary Army, said Murphy of his captors, was one "to engage in guerrilla...
...sound track is filled with the sweet melodrama of old radio programs like Gangbusters, which Altman uses both to locate Bowie, Keechie and their pals in popular mythology and as an ironic counterpoint to lives that are too pressingly real. He gets fair, subdued performances from his cast and in addition admirably captures the poor rural South. Shot in muted autumnal tones, the film seems overcast, sad and dense with a kind of elemental menace...
...Counterpoint, Saturday and Sunday, February...
Thesmophoriazousae or The Matron's Revenge is a musical adaptation of Aristophanes, but even though the tunes are for several voices maybe even in counterpoint, John Finley probably won't appear. 8 p.m. at the B.U. Theater, 264 Huntington Avenue in Boston...
Maybe, with so much talk about so little movie--further perpetuated here--and with the commercial forms (if not the actual money) so blatant, the implication is that W. Donald Brown's Counterpoint is a con movie, that he's ripping somebody off. Maybe so. But in career games like filmmaking, it's seldom talent that pulls a first-time artist out of the hat and into the public view. Usually you need to do it with mirrors...