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Donald Brown describes Counterpoint as a film of "hidden meanings." "An imposed, artificial order on the surface" (this is supposed to be symbolized visually by recurring shots of clocks, rows, columns, etc.) hides a world of "chaos underneath" (symbolized by smoke). This is "counterpoint." There is also a set of "misconceptions" and "red herrings" in the plot line which parallel this visual theme...
Mark Hardaway, a 6 ft. 1 in. junior guard, leads Columbia with an 11.8 scoring average. Senior captain John Byrnes, a 5 ft. 9 in. playmaker, follows Hardaway with an 8.1 average. Four sophomores play underneath: John Avery, Larry Collins, Jerry Boone and Rick Newsome...
...Underneath all the bitterness and recrimination and at the heart of the controversy is the same problem the DeFunis case deals with: reverse discrimination...
...underneath many of the issues and much of the discontent lay the corrosive effects of Watergate, a cynicism about the nation's political leaders of whatever stripe, and pervading doubts that the people were being told the truth about the bedeviling problems of the day. Portraits of the circuit riders...
...like his exaggerated reputation as "Maximum John" (for his tough sentencing), his simplicity and folksiness are also deceptive. "Underneath that quiet surface, he's aggressive; he knows what he wants to do and he does it," notes a Sirica colleague, Federal Judge Leonard Walsh. What Sirica wants to do is battle for whatever he thinks is right. "I came up rough-and-tumble, never backing away from a fight. It does something good for you," he says...