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Forbes has three lectures left in each of his fall courses. Music 2a. "A Study of Melody and Counterpoint," and Literature and Arts B-51. "The Literature of Voice." He also serves as head tutor of the Music Department...
...again in counterpoint with the Book Depository and the shots, and riderless Black Jack fighting the bridle, and the widow, the little boy saluting, and the long mahogany box in the Rotunda-the protagonist and the irretrievable mystery of the piece. The death of John F. Kennedy became a participatory American tragedy, a drama both global and intensely intimate...
...Sellars can become striking: the discovery of Thaisa's coffin by villagers plays hauntingly, though many other poignant scenes fall flat. Background music takes the place of scenery, underscoring places, themes and problems. By the end this music actually plays onstage, with a visible piano offering a melodic counterpoint to the finale...
...while, like a terrible, tragic counterpoint, Matthew's father, whom he adored, was dying of cancer. James Broderick learned of his illness the day Matthew opened in Torch Song. Later, during the filming of Max Dugan and WarGames, Matthew would fly to New York City from California every weekend to be at his father's bedside. The elder Broderick died last November, a few hours after Brighton Beach went into rehearsal."It was important to Jimmy that Matthew get a good start," says Patsy. " 'What matters is the play,' he said." She adds, "Matthew has grown...
...front of all these people? She took my hand and placed it high on her thigh, raising her skirt and slightly opening her legs . . . And all the time we kept talking in loud voices about Cartier-Bresson and was photography an art." Using the same device in scalding counterpoint, Nichols has James and his alter ego collaborate on a steamy love letter to Kate at the same moment that it is being read aloud by Eleanor's alter ego to Eleanor and the person who intercepted it: a bitter middle-aged friend (Stephanie Gordon) whose late husband Kate...