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...traditionally pornographic subject. There’s something of the scalpel in those descriptions of 12-year-old Lo’s “pre-adolescently incurved back, that ivory-smooth, sliding sensation of her skin through the thin frock.” Of course, such detached precision??each word set down deliberately as a pin through the thorax of a butterfly—was for Nabokov a conscious choice, allowing him to scale ever more crystalline summits. “For me,” he wrote, “a work of fiction exists only...
...Surprisingly, the corps gave a stunning performance, particularly in the second act. Clearly well rehearsed and inspired, the corps was adept at ensemble timing and precision??especially during the pirouette sequence in the final moments of the ballet. Also striking was the professionalism of the children who made up the cast of forest insects. Clad with wings and antennae, they were not only adorable but also skillful dancers, executing clean leaps and turns with elegant simplicity...
...much independent hip-hop, from Rawkus to Rhymesayers, suffers from that tidy precision??hanging onto skeletons of forms long after the first experiments made them stick...
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