Word: counterpointing
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...fashioned foghorn is overcome by the shriek of liquid oxygen as it pours under high pressure through valves and pipes. Clanging chords of hammer on steel, the humming sostenuto of machinery, the blip-blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus...
...rely mainly on the bitter wine of unreciprocated love to keep their untidy and unhappy lives going. The setting is a radio station, apparently in Athens, and the characters are male news announcers and girl disk jockeys. A day-and-night jangle of pop love tunes plays ironic counterpoint to the staff's self-tortured prisoners of love. The narrator is a crippled male receptionist, a kind of latter-day Tiresias, blind to the purpose of his own life but preternaturally alert to the cross-purposes of all others...
...play was intended to be majestically awesome, the 17th-century playwright succeeded in putting the almost divine myth into the classical framework of an uncomplicated plot and simple, moving language. Morris' innovation lies in the exaggerated, expressionalistic gestures he has his actors execute. This grotesque motion serves as a counterpoint to Racine's majestic lines, and gives the actors an opportunity to do more than recite the well-worn alexandrines...
Next came the hugely complex Agon, Balanchine's danced counterpoint to Stravinsky's brilliant, abstract score (TIME, Dec. 16). Two weeks ago Balanchine presented the elaborately costumed Gounod Symphony, an intricate construction on the French composer's first symphony...
This was the most contrary crew of football players ever to sail out of the U.S. Naval Academy on a leaky autumn afternoon. They seemed determined to scuttle all the pregame dope. Tradition would have had them decked out in white jerseys-a nice counterpoint to Army's ominous black. They trotted out in powdery pastel blue. Tough as they were, they were supposed to have a rough time with Army's roughriding halfbacks, Pistol Pete Dawkins and Bullet Bob Anderson. But the first time Army got the ball, the two highly-touted cadets were tossed...