Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films by W.D. Brown III '74. Counterpoint, at 8 p.m., and Robin Hood...
...guests of the Mississippi Economic Council when he predicted better days ahead for the nation (see THE PRESIDENCY). Nixon was scheduled to address a group of Republicans in Phoenix, Ariz., this Friday and attend the opening of the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday. In counterpoint last week a largely youthful crowd of 7,500 people, many bused in from other cities, marched peacefully down the capital's Constitution Avenue demanding Nixon's impeachment...
Clayton does take a shot at a little easy irony now and again - like using the song Ain't We Got Fun as counterpoint to the drawing-room tragedy. But he is as captivated by the bounties of wealth as Gatsby was, and spends endless minutes gliding his camera around expensive rooms or across the crowded floor of Gatsby's galas, all staged with a certain lavish clumsiness. This gives the film a numbing, punishing quality, as if everyone were trapped at some purgatorial party that will never end. At a running time of close to 2% hours...
...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...