Word: counterpointed
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...Harvard truly was committed to diversity, it would find room at the Crimson Inn for black conservative professors in order to provide a counterpoint to the Marxist nonsense preached by Cornel West and his acolytes. Instead, Harvard, along with Newt Gingrich, has bought into the fallacy that Jesse Jackson and his elk represent black America...
...later abstract works, the "Equivalents" (1929), provide a cushy counterpoint to such harder, clearly delineated concrete scenes. In a sense, Stieglitz taps into the age-old game of lying in the grass and picking out shapes in the sky, but with a deeper, vaguely solemn intent, as if to part the layers of nimbus and cumulus. His progression from works clearly grounded in the straightforward city to such abstraction in a sense reflects Stieglitz's attempts to broaden the "purpose" of photography...
...video dispatches from the primordial ooze, now bemoans the filth of daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build a "Statue of Responsibility" as counterpoint to the Statue of Liberty--and to build it in Southern California, no less...
Woody Allen, whose dialogue has often provided ironic counterpoint to Gershwin melodies, has made Everyone Says I Love You, in which Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda and others break into song. Fortunately, the scary prospect of Alda warbling is balanced by the songs themselves--swank standards...
...Yanowski is one of many weak links, lacking the animation to convincingly play counterpoint to Ponomarenko and Plotnikov's performances. He stiffly dances the Jack-in-the-Box, unable to match the manic energy the role requires. The corps of soldiers that accompany Plotnikov are equally unsatisfying, exhibiting the Boston Ballet's perennial lack of synchronization in group movements. At the end of a section, they are all supposed to kneel at the same time on the same beat, but are distractedly out of time with the music and with each other...