Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charged that NBC had failed to provide "reasonable opportunity" for the airing of positive views on the subject. NBC asked for a review of the report by the full FCC membership. Last December the commission supported (5-0) its staffs decision and ordered NBC to come up with some counterpoint to its documentary. At that point, NBC took its appeal to court...
...shame that Carl Schlaikjer did not receive credit in the program listings for his oboe d'amore playing. It was a display of virtuoso caliber remarkable for its sensitivity of phrase and quality of tone. The instrument's sound filled the church in beautiful counterpoint to the alto-tenor duet...
...first movement of the Symphony, an allegro, is skillful and delightful. Not surprisingly, it was written in a burst of inspiration; the other movements were constructed afterwards. The serene opening fills out into a vigorous and full-voiced movement. Mixing folk elements with the counterpoint studiously learned at the Leipzig Conservatory, Sullivan blends them with the brilliant orchestration technique that was praised in his earliest works and became such a trademark of the great Savoy operettas. The movement is all the more remarkable in view of the composer's age, twenty-four years at the time of its composition...
...York Times, most saw the move as a peace offering from Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to the newly re-elected Administration. On an Op-Ed page dominated by such consistent Nixon critics as James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis, Safire could provide a steady injection of pro-Administration counterpoint. But the new commentator had knocked out exactly one column (on April 16) before the President made his first public admission of White House involvement in the Watergate scandal. Since then, Safire has been forced to ignore nearly everything except that political hurricane...
...joyfully screwing Coburn and half the crew. You never know whether to toss Cannon off as the sexy starlet "dumb broad" type, or look for intelligence behind her unabashed flattery. She manages to maintain this tension in her role throughout the film, and Ross uses her well as a counterpoint to more mundane dialogue. Richard Benjamin is the sliding writer, questioning and confused about the cruise and its purposes; Joan Hackett plays his clinging wife; and Mason plays the washed up director with an easy ambience and quiet paternalism...