Word: counterpointing
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...taught full time between his terms as chair. Though his specialty was Renaissance music, topics for Merritt's class included harmony, counterpoint and the history of music...
...only are the numbers impressive--they mark Linden's season highs for yardage and touchdowns--but one got the sense, for the first time since last November, that Linden's passing game could work as an effective counterpoint to Menick's workhorse ball-carrying...
...This has been an apt enough World Series to tack onto this glorious baseball season. The Yankees' team of faceless assassins are the perfect counterpoint to the solo gunslinging of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, and when this team finishes the job, their numbers will loom with the rest. But good television? This Series has had its share of subplots, but its outcome -- the soul of any sporting event -- has never really been in doubt. Truly, the 1998 Yankees are destined for the history books. But history can be a dull affair when it's viewed this close...
...body of a female lover at regular intervals. The music never changes, and Harvey just watches, confessing that "she tears my heart out, every time." In the last verse, her voice lilts to a high, thin whisper as though all oxygen had run out of the room; the counterpoint to the neon drone bewitches, and Harvey, ever economical, stops the track early before the moment could be lost...
...Laurel and Hardy--think a snappier Saps at Sea--except that the Stan and Ollie here are Tucci and co-star Oliver Platt. Tucci, incapable of a gross moment even in the slapstick, seasick exertions of shipboard burlesque, nicely approximates Laurel's high, piping whine as counterpoint to Platt's unctuous exasperation. They are two actors stowed away on a '40s-ish ocean liner, ever scurrying from a British stage star who wants them arrested, gelded, dead. Also onboard are a deposed queen (Isabella Rossellini), a gay tennis player (Billy Connolly), a Teutonic chief steward (Campbell Scott) and a suicidal...