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Then the counterpoint, the explicit projection of the young woman's company as the harbinger of hope: It is helping over 1 million women, and she, its human face, is tireless in her effort to find a drug that will enable a woman to "climb stairs without fear, stand a little taller."
In the first 12 measures of "The Meaning of the Blues," from Miles Ahead , the contents of a rising counterpoint behind Davis' melody keep mutating: French horn and trumpet give way to oboe, which slides back into trumpets, and the progression into the fourth measure, with nothing but the treble of muted trumpets in unison, feels like an airplane taking off.
And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.
In this sense, the Bounce is a gesture for elitists, and thus a glaring counterpoint to ...
The autobiographical segments of this book detail that, throughout his career, he has been interested in understanding how the brain works, using his substantial knowledge and intuition about the architecture and design of conventional computers as a counterpoint.