Word: angularities
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...Kramer vs Kramerfame) has locked her out of the bathroom and her mother (Carlin Glynn) has forgotten both her daughter's lunch and her daughter's birthday. What's more, Samantha doesn't feel quite as different as she'd like; as she looks in the mirror at her angular form she says disappointedly, "I look exactly the same as I have since summer, utterly forgettable...
...look like they're accomplishing something--whether destroying someone else's achievement or creating one of their own. There is simply a certain joy in regarding concrete activity; welders crouched over their work and casting a blue glow from the arcs of their rods; electrician laying out conduit in angular symmetry; and all of them anticipating the deliveries of the cement mixers queued up on Mass. Ave, and waiting to dump their contents into the pumps that will eagerly suck in the grey sludge...
...angel sings, no doubt voicing Messiaen's own conception of his artistic role. "He will reply to you through music. Let the secrets, the secrets of glory open." As the angel begins to play a heavenly viol, an Ondes Martenot sounds a deceptively ingenuous melody. At once oddly angular but celestially serene, it floats above a soft C major chord in the strings and a wordless chorus. The moment is one of beatific bliss, a close approximation of what one imagines the music of the spheres to sound like...
...foundation plans to convert the house into a center for Philippine Studies, and, in addition, hopes to raise money to endow a Chair in Philippine Studies at either Harvard or MIT, said Steve Angular, the foundation's president...
...dancers constantly intertwine themselves around each other's arms and legs, yet each person remains very distinct. The rhythm of the music intensifies, then plummets down to slow-motion tunes. Pushing and pulling against each other, the dancers seem to create curves like molded clay while posing in angular, geometric forms. Although Carmina Burana is definitely a lusty, almost carnal piece about the bodies and desires of human beings, many of the steps and movements imitate non-living forms, from a flower to an octopus flinging its tentacles out in many directions...