Word: interplay
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...Irvine Auditorium last week was equally exotic-a curious mingling of Indians in turbans or saris, bearded jazz musicians, leather-jacketed beatniks and college students. Racing his spidery fingers across the steel strings of his sitar, Ravi Shankar invoked a whining chorus of quavering, sensuous melodies in intricate interplay with the shifting, galloping cross-rhythms of the tablet (drums). Soaring above the metallic drone of an unfretted lute called a tamboura, Shankar finished in a furious display of virtuosity that brought a cheering ovation from the audience...
...demonstrated the interplay of words and music by singing some of his own poems "which wouldn't have been written at all if not for the tunes." The audience broke into applause in the middle of one poem...
...monopoly of collective bargaining by national unions and employer organizations stands in the way of better co-operation, Romney said. "The customer is being shortchanged" through the selfish interplay of the national groups, he claimed...
...motif of the show is the easy interplay between man and beast, myth and daily life. The winged bulls and lions on vases and breastplates represent totemic alliances by which ancient man sought to acquire the power of the strongest beasts to fend off the evil forces around him. But in their arresting regality, these beasts bear themselves like demigods, not mere-animals...
Like his characters, Kubrick's plot is simple--but only superficially. Actually it operates on two levels simultaneously, one hilariously fanciful, the other disturbingly realistic. It is this interplay, more than the actual tension of the story-line, that enervates the constantly laughing audiences. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a right-wing general, is convinced that the Russians are surreptitiously "sapping our bodily fluids" by flouridating drinking water. Concerned for America's "virility," Ripper orders a surprise nuclear attack on the USSR. Action alternates between the Washington War Room, where a liberal, weak-kneed President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) tries...