Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...block. He combined two sculptural modes: the relatively straightforward, subtly continuous modeling of the human face and figure and a wild abstract convolution and hollowing of draperies, a sense of the pure plane jutting and receding in space that surrounds his bodies with an ecstatic corona of motion. His linden- wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural, the planes of wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm...
...most adventurous device, Bradford clothes Evett in green body make-up and transparent loincloth, and has him dart around the stage, sometimes quickly, sometimes stroking the air with slow-motion body gestures to create the impression of being lighter-than-air. The effect works; Evett manages to deliver some momentous dialogue with astonishing pungency, all the while balancing his taut figure in the pose of a Greek discus thrower...
...hard on ourselves? Take me, for instance. Sometimes a tiny voice tells me, "Leo, you are creating soft-centered, runny confections again." But then I think: There's new stuff here. There's the part about how you can make cleaning your house a vibrant symphony of joyous motion, and the big uplift when my cat turned out to have one of the highest feline IQs ever tested. There's a lesson in all this: deactualize all those shoulds and musts. I believe it was Clint Eastwood who observed, "Let love make your day." I could go on like this...
...disburse the unexpected $50 million profit. The H-R Parents' Association--which claims that it made the day possible in the first place--threatens to take the class marshals to court unless they turn over $357,500 per mommy and daddy. But then the Undergraduate Council passes a motion impounding the $50 million for construction of a 37-story headquarters in Boston's financial district, complete with new furniture and a 60-foot, all-gold Big Finger statue in front...
...women also displayed their command of pantomime in some of the humorous numbers. Dressed in colorful costumes from the '20s, they lifted their legs effortlessly into arabesques. The motion does not stop as the women join their partners in a finale of lunges, head rolls and turns with their arms carving angular shapes in the air. This breathless scene ended as a bell rings and a train whistle blows in the distance...