Word: crisped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prevailing climate of this collection is one of spare, sharp lines, big graphics and crisp edges. John loves Irving Penn, whose work looks clean and sober even when his subject was a New Guinea tribesman caked in ceremonial mud. He loves Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things...
...Beaux Arts Trio ended its performance with Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Opus 66. Kim highlighted the beautiful second movement, with one pure note bleeding out of a great swell. The frantic third movement was all the more breathtaking and agitated with the trio's crisp strokes and articulation, subito pianos and roars. As the last note faded away, the audience became visibly relaxed, as they half-chuckled at how easy the trio made the movement seem...
...Mendelssohn, the audience exploded in nonstop applause and shouts of "Bravo!" They were rewarded as the trio sat down once more for an encore. The last movement of the E major Haydn Piano Trio proved to be a delightful, almost giddy, piece, with quirky and crisp grace notes passing among each member of the trio. The group members were obviously having great fun throughout this encore. In jest, Pressler deliberately drew out one note, heightening the anticipation with flair, charm and beautifully clean technique. As the enthusiastic audience once again applauded the brilliant and passionate performance, the trio departed from...
...much of the humor can be rather clever. And Mike did manage to sneak in some sequences that could even be considered-gasp-tasteful. In "Rejected," you view animated commercials made for the Family Learning Channel that, for obvious reasons, were turned down: "The Ghost of Stephen Foster" displays crisp animation (with Squirrel Nut Zippers music) pleasantly reminiscent of the 1930s, and Pixar's "For the Birds" shows off computer animation at its best...
Shortly after we married, I found my husband savaging my window treatments. "What have you done to the swag?" I asked, eyeing a mess on the living-room floor that would never, ever again hang in crisp folds across a decorative rod. "I figured it was time to let the drapes do some work," he said. What drapes? Even the cat knew we had nothing hidden up there. Just the, uh, former swag...