Word: counterpointing
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...fellow comedians and politicians; and his Los Angeles TV shows during the Democratic Convention made him the most entertaining voice within reach of a microphone. This fall, new territory will be opened up by Sahl when he launches a national tour, with the Lime-liters providing a folk-song counterpoint to his humor...
...Counterpoint to Laughter. When Little Rock entered the news, Sahl approached the theme from various byways, one of which was his fondness for sniping at the President: a critic had said that if the President were really a man, he would take a little colored girl by the hand and lead her through that line of bigots into the high school. "That's easy to say if you are not involved," said Sahl, fingering the trigger. "But if you are in the Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping...
...that might easily have seemed unwarranted, but do not. At the beginning of the story his diction and sentence structure set a tone with which occasional word choices clash, but after the first two paragraphs his control does not slip. I look forward to reading the novel, which will counterpoint stories of the gangs with others about a group of New York children who go to college and Europe, have money and women...
Thus the suburban counterpoint leaps forward in optimistic measure, creating a new framework for the American theme. True, as in every place, every suburban husband wishes he earned more money, every mother with young children wishes' she had more help, small boys wish there were fewer days of school, small girls wish there were fewer small boys, and babies all wish there was no such thing as strained spinach. Nevertheless, there is scarcely a man or woman living in all those hills and groves beyond the cities who does not sing with Martial: Rtis mihi dulce sub urbe...
...point, wearing a white chiffon gown, she danced an elaborate counterpoint to her female accuser with sensuous assurance; at another she fluttered behind prison bars like a captive bird. In one of the ballet's climactic scenes she danced a sexy blues number provocatively clothed in a low-cut gown. "Perhaps," said Carla, who is so thin that her fans call her "little spinach," "the dress was not exactly adapted to my physique." But at ballet's end, fans applauded through nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since...