Word: counterpoints
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...counterpoint, Manhattan's Whitney Museum has mounted a lavish historical show entitled "Photography in America...
FIORELLO!, though, is a demanding production and it is impressive that the directors have done as well as they have. The music is ambitious in this show, requiring more complicated counterpoint than most musicals attempt. Nonetheless, the political hacks and the trio of legal clients handle the score professionally, rendering clear and balanced performances...
...angrily dismissed the reports as "threadbare inventions" of the "bourgeois press." A Tass commentary also contained a thinly veiled reprimand to Tito for lending credence to the rumors that the Soviet Union had been interfering in Yugoslavia's domestic affairs. In a characteristic display of the point-and-counterpoint diplomacy that keeps Yugoslavia straddled between East and West, Tito began backtracking...
Ford's hard-edged speech proved to be an appropriate thematic counterpoint to the opening address of General Assembly President Bouteflika. At 37, the Algerian Foreign Minister not only is the youngest person ever to occupy the seat but also appears to be among the least neutral in his sympathies. Bouteflika's opening address scored imperialism in Southeast Asia, an obvious reference to the U.S. presence there. He attacked "hidden hands" on Cyprus. He congratulated Portugal, regularly scored in the past by U.N. members as a colonial oppressor, for "reconciliation with the cause of liberty" in granting independence...
...counterpoint between steel and paint did not always come off, but Smith's effort to make it work was an integral part of American art history. Greenberg's decision to posthumously destroy the evidence of what he considered Smith's "failure" was, one must in charity assume, directed by sincere aesthetic motives - just as John Ruskin's posthumous burning of "pornographic" watercolors by J.M.W. Turner in the 19th century was sincerely meant to protect Turner's moral reputation...