Word: angularity
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...locale is Chicago, but no Chicago known to man. The central character, Shlink, a Malaysian lumber dealer, looks like an angular Dr. Fu Manchu. Shlink (Seth Allen) offers to buy a library clerk's opinion of a mystery thriller. The clerk, a romantic idealist named George Garga (Don Scardino), offers to sell Rimbaud's critique, but proudly announces that his own cannot be bought...
...absorb all this. It took him an additional five seconds to reproduce it and just an instant more to top it. He curled his mouth so it looked like a squeezed citrus. His eyelids shut down like blinds, into a squint, his hands shriveled into a kind of angular cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play and, finally, some wonderfully stylized hybrid...
...into the worst scrapes. Tracked and trapped by homicidal maniacs in Halloween and Prom Night, deposited by leprous spooks into The Fog bank, and now manhandled by a psycho transsexual on a Terror Train, Curtis is the new virgin queen of shivers. No-nonsense intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have...
...show, which moves to Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery in June, supports this notion, embracing as it does nearly every period in Miró's long career (he was 87 last week). The angular planes of Standing Nude, 1918, for example, show that the young goldsmith's son, painting in Barcelona, had already studied reproductions of the works of the cubists in Paris. Because of World War I, Miró could not get to Paris himself until 1919. By then he was 26 and a determined individualist: he remained very much the hedgehog (who knew...
...most abstract works, those of the Russian Constructivists, are some of the best in the show. The hard-edged geometric shapes and angular explorations of space tread a thin line between cool control and explosive violence. The works, produced in Russia at the time of the Revolution, recapture the spirit of a nation seizing new politics and new technology...