Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Meredith's Texas drawl and bucolic quips sound as if they belong on one of ABC Monday Night Football's competitors, Mayberry R.F.D. Which makes them a highly effective counterpoint to Cosell's rasping New York pedantry. As Meredith told TIME'S Mark Goodman last week, "If Cosell says, 'They have a paucity of plays, I may say something like, 'If you mean they ain't got a whole bunch, you're right.' " As a result, the Don and Howard Show has become so entertaining that at times it comes close...
Though it was strictly harmony and counterpoint from then on, a certain unison of thought and execution dominated their recital. The performance-notable, among other things, for the way Jacqueline sometimes wrapped her long, graceful arms around the cello in a passionate embrace-fully deserved the audience's round enthusiasm and more than sellout house...
...Their meticulous performances, with countless shades and nuances of expression and speech-repeating the same words and sighs in slightly different, carefully thought-out ways-make the play beautiful to watch. In difficult roles without any real action, the two masters complement each other perfectly. Their dialogues have the counterpoint of music and the precision of ballet. Also in the original London production, Mona Washbourne as Kathleen and Dandy Nichols as Marjorie are funny and excellent, and Graham Weston, as Alfred, the lobotomized wrestler, is very capable in a supporting role. Lindsay Anderson's direction is outstanding...
...prove its suitability as an outler for the creative impulses down on Brattle St. Two weeks ago Liz Coe's production of Joe Egg was favorably received and Pope Brock's starring performance roundly applauded. Last weekend an Ex staging of Sartre's No Exit offered a useful counterpoint to the mainstage presentation of Dirty Hands . Ex tickets available free at the box office the day before each show, are going so fast now that you should try to be first in line yourself...
...Even if it had been planned, no Brechtian genius could have staged the audience participation better. Before Nixon was 60 seconds into his speech, the platoon of hecklers began to shout: "Tell us about Kent State!" "Right on!" "Make more bombs!" The vast majority of the audience began a counterpoint of loud and sustained applause. Nixon, hearing the radicals, hurried his speech, with half-stops in his monotone. But his lines about "the willingness to listen to somebody without trying to shout him down" summoned up thunderous ovations...