Word: queering
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While turbaned musicians, sitting cross-legged on the floor, thumped on queer-shaped drums with fingers, palms and sticks, clinked tiny cymbals and strummed the twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace...
West of the Alleghenies, the Episcopal Church's membership is less than 1% of the population. Though Episcopalians in the East are thought fashionable, in the hinterland they are sometimes looked upon as a little queer...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week put on its first world premiere in five seasons,† and it was a queer...
From the windows of their Fifth Avenue apartment, overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, an insurance broker and his wife saw a middle-aged woman carry a package into the park, put it under a bush and walk away. That seemed queer. Next day, at the same late afternoon hour, they saw her again. They watched to see what happened to the package. Nothing happened. But in the morning it was gone. No matter how late they watched-and sometimes they sat up very late, with binoculars-they never saw anyone take the box away. But in the morning...
Schumann: Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, and Bruno Walter, pianist; Columbia; 8 sides). Two fine musicians in their first recorded collaboration. But Mme. Lehmann's voice, often breathy, sounds queer in these songs of strictly masculine love...