Word: counterpoint
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...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...
...Counterpoint: The pied beauty of Shea Stadium
...Your preternatural confidence has always been an asset. As Gordon Brown vacillates, you appear determined and assured. But in power, you will no longer be viewed just in counterpoint but also in isolation. Don't be surprised if your clarity of purpose begins to read as haughtiness, your self-belief as arrogance...
...Games are moving on. And Britain, which scored its best medal haul in a century, is a counterpoint to China. London has far less to prove than Beijing. It may have plenty of troubles: a congested city center, topsy-turvy real-estate prices. But lack of confidence is not one of London's problems. The Closing Ceremony's eight-minute preview spot for the upcoming host featured a charming double-decker bus loaded with a small cast of characters that included rocker Jimmy Page. The organizers of London 2012 said they didn't want to compete with the Closing Ceremony...
...gentrifying neighborhoods more often than they to did similar, more static areas. Two other groups tended to move more often into upwardly mobile neighborhoods as well: 40-to-60-year-old Hispanics without a high-school degree, and similarly uneducated Hispanics aged 20 to 40 with children - a counterpoint to the common conception of gentrification, if there ever was one. The only group that was less likely to move to a gentrifying area was high school-educated whites aged 20 to 40 with kids...