Word: angular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...
Irwin Shaw's recent characters seem to come in three possible shapes: flat, angular or round. They range from the looking" to "sharp-faced, the merely balding, "round, mahog insignificant-any-tanned [and] smiling." Somewhere in between, you will find Jesse Craig, the 48-year-old protagonist of Shaw's latest bestselling novel. Craig's last two films bombed for $8,000,000; his estranged wife has grown accustomed to his checkbook; his mistress may be getting bored with his body. So Craig does the only logical thing: he flees to the Cannes Film Festival to mend...
Wilder made the film in capris, Sorrento and a studio in Rome, yet Aventi! has little more Italian flavor than Joe's Plaza. Wilder's infatuation with obtrusive angular shots emphasizes hotel musicians, airplane landing gear, the mortuary, and the like. He hopes on establish ambiance based on the incongruity of Italy the jet set vacation spot and the "real" Italy--a country he feebly represents with fetching shots of nuns, priests, hungry boys, and a breast-feeding woman. The incongruity is, in Avanti!, only a clumsy attempt to create an ironic background for ironic romance...
...windswept Baltic inlet only a few miles from Helsinki sits a starkly modern building, an angular Finnish masterpiece in white pine and fieldstone, which houses the student union of Helsinki's Technical University. There, around a hollow six-sided table, the representatives of 32 European countries plus the U.S. and Canada took their places last week to begin talks that may lead to the most significant conference in Europe's postwar history...
...Nixon's America the language tends to be angular and mechanical, to speak of systems and order, in McGovern's nation it is a more humanistic vocabulary of "decency," "compassion" and "integrity." The idea of "a restoration of faith in government" recurs, a vaguely spiritual impulse focusing on confidence and trust. If Nixonians talk of what is "right with the country," McGovernites almost by definition are impelled by a sense of what is wrong with it and what could be better. They express a sense of the U.S. gone awry, of government wrested from the people to serve unholy ends?...