Word: counterpointing
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Good Things Come, and for counterpoint in Quartet Agonistes...
Intended as ironic comment and counterpoint, the 21 songs in the show offer only the anesthetic sounds of Muzak. When a low-flying Von Richthofen is machine-gunned down by the Australians, it is not the historical inaccuracy that counts (he was probably felled by a Canadian R.A.F. pilot) but the fact that his death touches no nerve. That is not John Vickery's fault, for he and the rest of the cast perform feats of acting valor with a script that goes AWOL from the curtain's rise...
...hatreds can be more stifling than a peanut suit. Readers of Plante's other novels know that Daniel becomes an expatriate writer like the author. To the extent that this suggests autobiography, the image of Daniel drawing himself drawing himself is a special effect, a quiet counterpoint to popular entertainments like TRON in which characters noisily inhabit their electronic fictions. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...
...herself until her arms turn blue. Again and again, a potentially moving moment is totally transformed with a wink of the eye, as it suddenly becomes absurd. An initially pleasant duet between Luisa and Matt (Vaughn Winchell) becomes odd--to say the least--when it breaks into a cheerful counterpoint of Matt singing. "You are love!," and Luisa rejoining, "I am love...