Word: contort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chapel. "Birthday Letter" finds Allen Grossman, who teaches at Brandeis, composing in the night; he speaks in pain and hope, honestly. Freeman's "Suicide" is quick, light, ironic and like most of his stuff is very comprehensible. The four Doub drawings reveal that houses, too, have faces that contort in time. Perhaps they are so sad they are funny...
Cranks (by John Cranko; music by John Addison) is a pint-sized English revue with a Jeroboam's worth of frills. Three men and a girl squeal or kneel or sit with their backs to the audience, climb things while they rhyme things, weave about or dance or contort while singing ballads or blues. In a welter of shifting lights, one revue number slithers into the next while the performers act as their own stagehands...
...publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort...
Actually earth heat itself is still the most important unknown of geophysics. The only known source of energy which is potent enough to contort the earth's surface with upthrust mountains, heat must be studied by the geophysicist in order to gauge rocks' conductivity...