Word: counterpointings
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...shops -a rare sight in a New Africa that is moving steadily toward one-party government systems. There is spirited debate in Parliament, and although the commonest sound on the streets is still the beggar's cry for "Baksheesh!," there is plenty of free and strident speech to counterpoint...
...also directed by Kazan. Right from the opening polyphonic susurrus, no detail is unimportant. Kazan may underline the similarity of the reactions to Quentin by his two vastly different wives through instructing Quentin to push both of them to the floor simultaneously; or he may devise a subtle background counterpoint against the downstage goings-on. He is ever zealous in taking complex matter that could be frightfully confusing and giving it intelligible shape and theatrical effectiveness...
...weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician's Apprentice...
...fails to communicate; his delivery is slurred and his funny lines dribble out like sap from a rubber tree. He plays a weak foil to a fine supporting cast, and is nearly forgotten in his scenes with Jean, Daisy, and M. Dudard (James Beard). Barend even spoils Ionesco's counterpoint in the first act, where lines, roles, and arguments flow from one character to another in a masterpiece of confusion...
Like the son in The Glass Menag- erie John Williams sets the Southern landscape with his lyrical prologue: "I remember the evening now with remoteness and detachment." In hilarious counterpoint to these words, he grinds out a cigarette and his body surges with the restless energy of Brando-like animalism. These moments are enough to absolve him from the shortcomings of his unchanging demeanor throughout the afternoon...