Word: counterpointing
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Lancelot tells another hurricane story as an emblem of his apocalyptic intentions and in counterpoint to the movie and all it represents. A moment of brilliant clarity hit a middle-aged couple in the face of the hurricane: they realized and said out loud how bored they were with their lives and each other, made terrific love during the storm, and "took a good hard look at each other on a sunny Monday morning and got a divorce." Lancelot's and Percy's hurricanes are meant to sweep out the artificial hurricane of false elation and superficial radicalism that...
Vinnette Carroll, who wrote and staged Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, was responsible a few seasons back for a similar hit, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. She seems to have a feeling for the counterpoint of spirituality and sensuality that is characteristic of the temperament and life-style of many U.S. blacks...
...kind of counterpoint to Arafat's decree, Palestinian students in the West Bank last week took to the streets once more in rock-throwing demonstrations. Later, Arab storekeepers called a general strike that closed down West
THERE SUCH AN ear for counterpoint is really needed was in Paul Hindemith's Symphony for Band, written in 1951 when the composer was 56. This work in three movements was written at the request of the U.S. Army Band, and maybe little else need be said. Actually, the Symphony for Band by Hindemith has become somewhat of a staple of the wind band repertoire, but its rendition by the Concert Band Friday night was not as even and impressive as in parts it showed potential...
...Concert Band have a rather moving, swelling climax here, and the tolling of the drums came across well with contrasting dolefullness and sobriety amid the dance of the winds at the end. "Provence," the last part, contained the richest melodies, played cleanly with an ear for interesting counterpoint...