Word: expressionisms
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Balance is essential to the Divan orchestra and to Barenboim himself. Music is at its most satisfying when an expression meets its counterpoint. Barenboim says the 2003 death from cancer of Palestinian intellectual Edward Said--Barenboim's friend and co-leader of the orchestra--was "catastrophic" for an orchestra based...
The most rapt expression of the Pope's enthusiasm for the U.S. came in a high-minded 2004 dialogue with the president of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, published as the book Without Roots. It bemoans the European Union's refusal to acknowledge Christianity in a draft constitution, and Pera...
The taut physiques of four world-renowned ballet dancers bound back and forth across the Harvard Dance Center’s main studio. They’re wearing sneakers, and one of them is going the wrong direction. A good-natured Keith Roberts, longtime dancer with American Ballet Theater, is...
Neither the FBI nor the Transportation Security Administration specifies exactly what that suspicious behavior consisted of. But the science of reading "micro-expressions" is becoming more sophisticated. "In micro-expression, something is on and off the face in about 1/30th of a second. So it's very, very rapid," says...
For example, three muscles control the human eyebrow, shaping that portion of the face into an exponential number of expressions. Feeling distressed? Those muscles unconsciously knit the brows together and upward, pulling the eyes up at the inner corner. Think of that classic vision of perpetual existential angst, Woody Allen...