Word: counterpointing
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...steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three U.S. sculptors best fitted to handle large outdoor projects...
...series of grunts), the couple are co-equal as characters, and the contrast between them is anything but insignificant. Each character presents alternative ways of facing this vale of tears, and Beckett's play only begins to make sense as an exploration of the human condition when the counterpoint of their relationship is fully established...
...sometimes megamusic. Their performances were fueled by dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...
Aldiss has always written with gusto. This book is not just an exciting, macabre story. Using a verbal counterpoint -19th century literary style against the curt phrases of the 21st-the author has brought off a convincing interpretation of Frankenstein for today...
...Greeks and Turks, ancient enemies,* rushed troops to their 90-mile mutual border along the Evros River and ordered general mobilization, raising the threat of mainland fighting to counterpoint the skirmishes on Cyprus...