Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stone and wood statues were full-bodied; the bronze figures are slimmed down to bone and sinew. The surfaces are rough, and the resultant ripple adds to the sense of movement. There is nothing slavishly naturalistic about Gross; he distorts freely for the sake of balance and design. "I used to say that if they tried, not one of my little circus girls could get up and walk away-people aren't built that way. But if you get away from straight naturalistic forms, it sometimes makes things more interesting." Gross is refreshingly unafraid of repeating himself: "I love...
THOM Gunn's third and latest book of poems takes its title from a jaded but "treble-sinew'd" Antony's invitation to "one other gaudy night" before the reeking dishonor of Actium. Insofar as this volume has a central theme, it is a study in types of heroism, which are finally indistinguishable from what Mr. Gunn calls "modes of pleasure." On one side stand the byrnied and terrified warriors of the age of Ethelred and such perennial noblemen of the suicidal beau geste as Claus von Stauffenberg. Different only in degree are the tattooed and/or black-jacketed hoods...
...command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason for his success: his landscapes could be as elegantly dead as any man's, but when he painted animals, every muscle flared with life, and every sinew danced...