Word: jig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where is the jig from...
There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They...
...Merry Jig...
...skippers Steve Strittmatter and Nick Stone led the yardlin shipmates past the Coast Guard Academy and B.U. to take home first place at the season's first freshman invitational. "It looks very promising, to say the least," Horn says, with visions of first-place silverware undoubtedly doing a merry jig through his head...
...Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After a speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded 2,000 medals to soldiers, civil servants and relatives. Among those honored were his latest wife Sarah, 20, and his son Mwanga, 6, who appeared in an army...