Word: counterpoints
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...here, in surreal counterpoint, is smooth Jim Baker, who looks and talks like Danny Kaye as the Mississippi riverboat gambler in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
...party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have their own strident TV news network. And on the point-counterpoint shows, they speak with a vigor their so-called liberal (but really moderate) opponents are too decorous or slow-witted to even try to match. Liberal media? What liberal media? The Nation and the shattered remnants of the Pacifica radio network...
...never interested in making a drug movie. A lot of people were saying "Why are you making a drug movie?" and I say "It's not a drug movie." What makes this film interesting for me to tell was the Sara Goldfarb story, this counterpoint that says here is a traditional drug story of Harry, Tyrone, and Marion that we've seen before, but the Sara story we've never seen before. What it shows us is that anything can be a drug; it doesn't have to be heroin. It could be TV, it could be coffee, it could...
...most bizarre song on the album. A comment on one Radiohead website called the track "a blatantly stupid attempt at making a cheesy dance song." The song, however, is intensely aware of its own artificiality, as given in the title. The lyrics make repeated references to "bunkers," and the counterpoint of Thom Yorke's bare voice against the drum machine conjures images of confinement...
Another song I can't seem to shake is the number eight track, "What It Feels Like for a Girl," which comes off as a lyrical counterpoint to Christina Aguilera's "What a Girl Wants." In the latter, of course, the blond teen queen sings of boys who can please their girls by "knowing exactly" what they want. Madonna doesn't sympathize: "Good little girls they never show it / When you open up your mouth to speak / Could you be a little weak? / Do you know what it feels like for a girl...