Word: counterpointings
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When U.S. fighters downed a pair of Libyan jets last August, two choruses sounded in counterpoint: "Hooray! We've finally put Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...
...always some action, always some source of fun. At times the production seems more like a series of auditions for sign language school. Someone is always grimacing or gesturing, crawling or running--mostly broad and loud actions, but occasionally a little softer, a bit more restrained, in a welcome counterpoint to the steady diet of high-pitched gusto...
...soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...
...Dream Dances, set to eleven folk song adaptations by Italian Composer Luciano Berio, the dancers move explicitly to the rhythm of I Wonder As I Wander. But later, in Motettu de Tristura, the slow, sad music is a counterpoint to a dance of restless erotic energy...
...offer my un-koalafied praise for Chia-Chia's objective report of his recent trip from London [March 16]. His cool, responsible account was welcome counterpoint to the media-induced panda-monium surrounding the case. Certainly such detached testimony makes the entire situation much more bearable...