Word: angular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Copland, Neumeier's stripped-down, expressionistic dance is simplistically Oedipal: Mother Gertrude seems as much in love with her angst-ridden son as he is with her. The pseudomodern choreography is a pastiche of familiar gambits - with a lot of rolling around on the floor, body contractions and angular flexing of arms...
Would that it might have been their privilege to glimpse the heroic tilts of street-smart handball opponents, pitted al fresco in the angular coliseums of our nation's inner cities. After such a match, the two opponents are likely to crumple in fraternal exhaustion, their palms beaten red and puffy, their legs rubbery with exhaustion...
...Koren, and of course, Thurber. Too much has been written on Thurber to make it worth going into him here, but most of his great work was done for The New Yorker, and it fits better into this collection than it does into Thurber anthologies. I like Price's angular bodies and Koren's furry ones; my roommate likes Booth's cats; and Hilton Kramer thinks Steinberg is the only decent one among them...
...reasonable security, he has worked on building his repertory selectively. This fall's new works, Excursions, a lusty frontier-style piece, and Mazurka, to Chopin's music, are his most popular premieres since his 1969 ballroom ballet, Intermezzo. Mazurka is technically ferocious. But, says Feld, "with its angular line and hot and cold jazz rhythms, the ballet is like caviar...
...Western eye, puzzlingly so. This is partly due to the circumstance that, illiterate in Arabic, a Westerner cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page. (In a less exalted context, this becomes an advantage: neon...