Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes megamusic. Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...
Aldiss has always written with gusto. This book is not just an exciting, macabre story. Using a verbal counterpoint -19th century literary style against the curt phrases of the 21st-the author has brought off a convincing interpretation of Frankenstein for today...
...Greeks and Turks, ancient enemies,* rushed troops to their 90-mile mutual border along the Evros River and ordered general mobilization, raising the threat of mainland fighting to counterpoint the skirmishes on Cyprus...
...better year for Harvard filmmakers. Frank Mouris '74, a former VES lecturer, won the Oscar for best animated short subject with his autobiographical "Frank Film," made at Carpenter Center. W. Donald Brown '74 showed his full-length "Counterpoint" to packed houses at the Science Center in March, and brought out "Robin Hood" in May. Brown's promotion and financing methods suggested an entrepreneurial skill rather rare among Harvard filmmakers--most of whom content themselves with making short films which few people see--but his movies didn't live up to the expectations he aroused...
...Brown's Robin Hood, at 8 p.m.; and Counterpoint...