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...yellow, set against odd, motleyed columns, Daniel Seltzer as Leontes conveys a king's madness with convincing variations of tone. As laughter echoing through the palace seems to mock him, Seltzer's Leontes assumes an insane jealousy which if unfounded is nonetheless real. And from the harsh imperatives and angular poetry of winter to the more languid verse of a summer's resignation and remorse, he is often evocative and always controlled...
...more boring than painting mountain gorges?" And what emerges on canvas, as recollected in his studio, is less like Turner than the work of his close friend Francis Bacon, the painter of screaming popes. Sutherland's is a world that bristles with spiky artichokes and cacti or the angular postures of grasshoppers and mantises...
...sure a solemn chorus, robbed in purple, comments on the action in song, but their accompaniment is a jarring, discordant arrangement of oboes, tympani, drums, and piano (written by Guzzetti himself). An angular, jagged set complements the music and helps undercut the stolid dignity of the purely tragic form...
...Barbra's approximation of her is warmly moving and sometimes almost incredibly exact, but Barbra has never heard a Fanny Brice record or seen a Fanny Brice movie. Similarity draws from the shared Eastern-asphalt accents of the two women, from close resemblances in their wide mouths and angular gestures, and even more from the sense of courage that both put across in the act of provoking laughter...
...down an auto's back in one un broken convex curve, was abandoned by Detroit in the late 1940s in favor of the greenhouse roof, the sloping L-shape that was later refined by Ford into the much-copied T-Bird roof, a trim, knife-edged affair with angular lines. But for two years auto stylists have slowly been reviving the fastback on some sports models, and this year and next the curve will continue its comeback in at least three Detroit offerings. Last week Chrysler introduced the first of the new fastbacks, the Barracuda, whose startlingly different appearance...