Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Celebrity novelist Gore Vidal, as incumbent Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Brickley Paistle, is an effective, though more serious, counterpoint to Roberts. In a televised debate, Paiste defends child care, health care, "Sacrifice," while Roberts urges a tax cut and decries "wasteful social programs...
...virtues of this eclectic collection is that no single impression of the city dominates for too long; Lynell George's "City of Specters," a stark essay on death in Black Los Angeles, serves as a sobering and understated counterpoint to Babitz' exuberant piece. "In junior high school we went to more funerals than weddings," George writes. Her memoir is filled with children for whom the "concept of life has never been more ephemeral...there is not the need nor time to pace and fret over a future that may never...
...down boardinghouse, killing 10 mostly elderly and disabled residents, was one more reminder of how decrepit the city's housing stock has become. Detroit has averaged one new housing start annually for the past 17 years, among the lowest building rates in the nation. But last week, in a counterpoint to the sorrow of the deadliest fire in nearly 50 years, the city also offered a sign of hope. As the choir of gospel singers sang and the mayor beamed, Detroit opened its first new inner-city housing development in 30 years...
...longer, with 40% greater sail area than the 12-m craft generally used since the race was revived after World War II. But thanks to ultralight building materials, they weigh 30% less. Their new speed and maneuverability make them crankier, forcing sailing skills to the forefront as a welcome counterpoint to the increasing dominance of technology. Nobody has demonstrated those skills more than "comeback king" Conner. But after surviving the defender semifinals in a last-minute face-off with Koch's high- tech America 3 earlier this month, Conner's Stars & Stripes was trailing Koch's craft...
...deserving fella. Loesser would tell you that. As brash as any gravel-gargling high roller from Guys and Dolls, he was famous for telling his singers, "Loud is good," and he applied that maxim to his professional life. For Loesser, a song was melodrama in miniature: he loved the counterpoint of two hearts and voices in seductive competition, as in Baby, It's Cold Outside and many other contentious duets. They were an expression of his own tumultuous personality. During Guys and Dolls rehearsals, exasperated by Isabel Bigley's tentative attempts at I'll Know, Loesser stormed onstage and punched...