Word: contortion
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...Rapture contort dance beats to depict a variety of emotions, including the desperation of “Olio,” the paranoia of “Killing” and the intense exhilaration of lead single “House of Jealous Lovers.” The latter has received far too much attention for its adulation of the cowbell and nowhere near enough for the fun the band has counting to eight—to an extent which we haven’t seen since the Violent Femmes?...
Tomorrow night, Harvard bodies will twist, swirl and contort to the incendiary notes of techno beats and the virtuoso stylings of a solo bassist. And people will pack the Loeb-Ex Theater to see them. The 700 free tickets to the dance show Ex-rated were given out in days, and the wildly successful production showcases Harvard’s outstanding dance community. Harvard has an astounding 18 different student dance groups. Six hundred people each semester dance in the Office for the Arts (OFA) Dance Program. Harvard choreographers have competed masterfully in national competitions, and the dance programs rival...
...hominem attack is the easy fall back for anyone who disagrees with the Bush administration. For cartoonists, the first thing to do is draw an extra-large pair of ears on the President. Once that’s done, it’s time to contort his face into a vacuous expression, usually some combination of raised eyebrows, yawning mouth, and furrowed brow. And now that George W. has been transformed into Curious George, the simian storybook character, it is essential to insult his intelligence. Never mind that none of this has to do with the war in Iraq...
...probably remembers seeing her small lips contort into a smile, as she told him he would never find what he was looking for in their relationship. She had spent the first days of her sophomore year crouched over her cumbersome, gray Women’s Leadership Project binder as she brushed up on feminist issues in her DeWolfe suite. She knew she wanted to be an actress, and that in the months that would follow her graduation her dreams would take her to only one city—Los Angeles. Her mother, a nurse, had given up many...
...treatment of standard theater elements—certainly of language—Wellman can be rather vampirish himself. He takes an old word or phrase, drains it dry and then raises it from the dust transformed. Characters in Dracula contort words in eerily brilliant ways, which only grow eerier as they become more possessed (“there is hair growing into my head,” sings one of the particularly mad). When they can’t find the words to describe the alien situations they come upon, they are forced to invent their...