Word: counterpointing
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...relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends for himself. Such statesmanlike vignettes could only provide voters with a comforting counterpoint to his recurrent image as a diplomatic gunslinger...
...task. Reagan will be running against Walter Mondale, a known political quantity if ever there was one. But after four years of studious self-effacement, Bush will have to do what no major-party candidate has ever done before: pit himself against a female opponent, a brash and buoyant counterpoint to the buttoned-down Texan from Connecticut. "I'm a candidate for an office people used to ignore," he recently told a Knights of Columbus meeting in Denver. "This year it's a little different...
Afterwards, Forbes said, "They were spellbound" by the music. He spoke about what he termed his "three loves": Beethoven the edited Thayer's Life of Beethoven, published in 1964), choral music, and harmony and counterpoint. He said he enjoyed teaching because it "combines my love of music with a love of people...
Bauer is the field's iconoclast. For more than two decades he has provided a counterpoint to whatever tune others in his discipline happen to be playing. In his latest work, Reality and Rhetoric he goes back to grinding his familiar over the belief that the Third World's problems can be solved by a return to the free market...
Still, by Super Bowl standards, this one did have a modicum of reason. Like the man who shot up his own home and then blithely retired for the evening, every loud noise seemed to have its calm counterpoint. "Just win, baby!" Al Davis, the pirate king, repeated a rallying cry to his Raiders as he stepped up to accept the trophy from Archenemy Pete Rozelle. All week the National Football League commissioner had been asked how he would feel presenting silverware to a man who keeps suing the league, and Rozelle bravely replied, "I've said repeatedly over...