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Naked of walls and roof, the frame of foot-thick oak timbers has the precise, angular grace of a Victorian railway bridge. It is bound by hand-hewn pegs to a 20-ft. by 30-ft. rectangle. Inside this architectonic web freshly spun along the rear of the Bakers' blueberry-shingled farm house, Babcock, 50, in red plaid shirt and worn, blue work pants, ministers to a most ungraceful tangle of rope and wood...
Listeners and musicians alike have almost universally come to regard their second album, Spiderland, as a landmark for rock and roll music and Western civilization in general. Full of atmospherically angular guitar riffs that bounce off of one another in ways you never thought possible (a veritable Kama Sutra of melody), everyone from Billy Corgan to Sonic Youth had to take notice...
...last November shortly after the release of their album), but at the same time it doesn’t approach Avalon or Roxy-like sizes either. That’s just the right size for the band who dropped a self-titled debut late last October jam-packed with angular hooks and shout-outs to the last twenty years of alternative music. While there were certainly better records released in 2004, the Futureheads were one of the few completely new artists hitting the scene, and since the debut, the buzz over these guys has steadily grown as something to watch...
...career arc of the Deconstructivists is instructive. When their drawings and early projects first appeared in the late '70s and the '80s, angular, skewed, irregular in every way, they seemed the purest fantasy. But in the space of a generation, cutting-edge methodology became the standard operating procedure. Koolhaas, Libeskind and others like them have tied the old architectural forms in knots, yet they build around the world. You're reminded of that again in the show's final galleries, which are devoted to recent work?some built, some merely theoretical?by contemporary visionaries like Shigeru Ban and Jun Aoki...
While youngsters may wonder who Jean Harlow was (and whether she was as wan and angular as Gwen Stefani plays her), the Turner Classic Movies crowd will enjoy Cate Blanchett's high-pitched impersonation of Hepburn. If you're going to do Kate, do her up grand, lovey. Kate Beckinsale doesn't have the Gardner glow, but her role is mainly nurse to Hughes as he spirals into loopiness...