Word: angular
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...emphasis on the individual--his fear of the tendencies of society to make men smooth and round, rather than angular -- has evolved Heckscher's program for neighborhood parks. "Parks have always been the gathering placed for the people, the point where the values of the community are celebrated, where the business of the community is done, where everything from courtship to conspiracy has its birth...
...temptations of life outside, with an ambiguous outcome suggesting either death or maturity; in Sebastian, John Butler's sinuous, sensuous dance patterns turn a 17th century tale of black magic into palpable, modernistic horror; Macdonald's own abstract Time Out of Mind points in its brutal, angular movement to a parallel between the pace of modern life and the barbaric rituals of ancient times...
...stern, scholarly type who conducts with angular, storklike grace, Skrowaczewski takes an approach that is exact and exacting. Starting with a unit that was already a leader in the second rank of U.S. orchestras (behind the "big five" of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Chicago), he has given it an even finer edge of technical precision. While enriching its sound, particularly in the strings, he has achieved a limpid texture that lets the inner architecture of the music shine through. His interpretations, though vigorous and often intense, do not often reflect great emotional involvement-a trait that frustrates some...
...production the actor-actresses were garbed in wigs and flowing gowns but there were no falsies and no falsettos. The result was a remark ably chaste performance free of disturbing homoerotic overtones. While Lon don reviewers generally had mixed feelings about the experiment, they praised the angular grace of Ronald Pickup's Rosalind, which evoked memories of the sprightly 1961 performance in the same role by Vanessa Redgrave...
...sake-nor is he a simple man. "I see my pieces," he says, "as aggressors in hostile territory. I think of them as seeds or germs that could spread growth-or disease." Into their creation has gone not only years of architectural experience-which shows in their angular construction and their house-size dimensions-but also years of frustration, of chasing chimeras, tragedy, illness and black despair...