Word: limpid
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...latest exemplar of a type of dancer Vinogradov likes: tall, elegantly slender, chilly and lacking the turned-out hip position most classical dancers have. Makhalina will remind audiences of Galina Mezentseva, the director's beautiful but glacial favorite in the '80s. Younger ballerinas are developing, especially the limpid Zhanna Ayupova, who redeems Cinderella with a shy, radiant, technically assured performance in the lead role...
...second movement highlighted the sweeter part of Kremer's musicianship. His tones were mellifluous and limpid, and his chords and changes were exceptionally clear. Here, the BSO's modest and controlled playing led to an extremely touching performance...
...publish a rag. But in his hands the nascent genre was quickly transformed into something worthy of the concert hall. Joplin's rags, beginning with the sprightly Original Rags and ending with the autumnal, resigned Magnetic Rag of 1914, his farewell to the genre, were elegant in construction and limpid in expression. Yet they fully partook of what Joplin called a "weird and intoxicating" rhythmic quality, a quality that enthralled listeners and enraged preachers...
Moments later, two girls appear at his door, agitated and hoping he can help them avert a fight. One is a stocky third-grader, the other a fourth-grader with limpid brown eyes and cream-colored skin. "She called me a whore," said the older girl. With agonizing patience, Pannell unravels the dispute. The girls are friends. The day before, the older girl invited her friend home for the first time. There the younger child saw her friend's house was in disrepair, that the outside door was battered and punctured by what she thought were bullet holes. At school...
...pleasures of reading Lemann lie in her sure characterization and limpid style. If she has heard of Freud, she keeps it to herself. Her people, whether brisk and dignified or drunk and disorderly, are presented as distinct personalities whose actions, however odd, are inevitable and to be accepted. Little Al, age three, is impossibly wise. Margaret, from Memphis, is more than disorderly and is locked up regularly. But she is also "a glamour girl and old-style Southern belle." When the vignettes threaten to stretch credibility, Lemann unerringly interweaves a little writing just for its own sake, perhaps a nature...