Word: contort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that little girl. Suddenly her father (Chapman) appears behind her. Confrontation between angry brother (the camera is his avenger) and lover-father arrived just in time to shield his little girl. We expect sparks. But Hunter bores into Chapman's belligerent face, the frozen glance breaks, cheeks and lips contort, shiver in embarrassment. The patient camera has cut into the soft ludicrous center of his tough resolve...
...joints, such as Andy Warhol's Gymnasium in Manhattan, the aim is to immerse everybody in sound and sight. When the spell takes hold, young mothers with sleeping infants in their arms waltz dreamily around the floor; other dancers drift into a private reverie, devising new ways to contort their bodies. Some of the crowd sit in a yoga-like trance or, if that fails to satisfy, roll on the floor...
...ballet tells the story of an old Russian peasant wedding. Like some great infernal machine, the ballet crashes on in a barbaric, sensual ritual. First the bride and her maids, the bridegroom and his companions, each in turn, jump, run, somersault and contort. Then the weeping bride takes leave of her parental home. Finally there is the wedding feast: an obliging married couple warms up the bridal bed into which the shy, self-conscious newlyweds are then tossed by the drinking, brawling guests. Through it all the four soloists and the chorus wail, lament, cry, shout. Timpani boom, cymbals clang...
...THOMPSON-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Feverishly sensual imagery of unsubtle sexual allegory spiced by a confusion of horses' rumps, human hinders, bat-winged vampires and amoebic shapes that droop and contort like tortured Shmoos. The hot, flat fuchsias, reds and greens of this young modern primitive tangle in a fluid phantasmagoria of form, motion and space. Through...
According to Walker Sullivan of the New York Times, the idea of he forthcoming explosion, we read, came from two physicists at the University of Minnesota back in 1958. They proposed that a hydrogen bomb be exploded inside the Van Allen radiation. "This would contort the earth's magnetic field and dump particles it had. The particles would plunge into the atmosphere, producing spectacular auroral displays." "It might be amusing," they wrote," to end the international Geophysical year by destroying some of the radiation field first discovered during the I.G.Y...