Word: counterpoints
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...York Times, most saw the move as a peace offering from Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger to the newly re-elected Administration. On an Op-Ed page dominated by such consistent Nixon critics as James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis, Safire could provide a steady injection of pro-Administration counterpoint. But the new commentator had knocked out exactly one column (on April 16) before the President made his first public admission of White House involvement in the Watergate scandal. Since then, Safire has been forced to ignore nearly everything except that political hurricane...
...joyfully screwing Coburn and half the crew. You never know whether to toss Cannon off as the sexy starlet "dumb broad" type, or look for intelligence behind her unabashed flattery. She manages to maintain this tension in her role throughout the film, and Ross uses her well as a counterpoint to more mundane dialogue. Richard Benjamin is the sliding writer, questioning and confused about the cruise and its purposes; Joan Hackett plays his clinging wife; and Mason plays the washed up director with an easy ambience and quiet paternalism...
...easier to appreciate Senator Ervin's counterpoint. After a year of judicial sloth, he and his colleagues argued, television has actually accelerated justice. Facts that seemed irretrievable are now brought out in microseconds. Mystery figures are exposed as quite ordinary men. The conspiracy and cover-up no longer seem the work of shrewd political masterminds. Indeed, the figures on the screen are frightening not for their brilliant malevolence but because of their very ordinariness...
...journey is accompanied by some jauntily savage songs provided by the remarkable Alan Price, who, besides appearing as an actor, often comes onscreen to provide musical comment and counterpoint. "So smile while you're making it./ Laugh while you're taking it./ Even though you're faking it,/ Nobody's gonna know," Price sings at one point, as Mick, with his radiant smile and infinite belief in his own good fortune, tries to charm and brazen his way to the top. He is outwitted and undone at every turn, tortured in an atomic plant, made...
...play tells of the Easter Rising of 1916, a kind of futile miniature war seen through the eyes of the innocent bystanders. O'Casey's tragicomic vision is almost as constant as Shakespeare's, and his ironic sense of people and events moves always through counterpoint. After some fancy blather about "the glory of bloodshed," one sees the terrible reality of a boy dying of a stomach wound. Nora (Roberta Maxwell) pleads desperately with her husband not to go on with the fighting. He leaves her, is killed, and she goes affectingly...