Word: sinuous
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CABARET, winner of eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, is all binding and no book. The ambiance of the musical, set in the decadent Berlin of the 1930s, is as sinuous and sexy as original sin, but the show's plot line and score are all predictability and convention...
...Broadway. Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday. The dancers spin like zany revolving doors and slap themselves like victims in a mosquito plague, and there is never the faintest hint of those teasingly slow, sinuous Greek male dances that seem to be sculptured...
...decade since the turn-of-the-century's sinuous art-nouveau style first began to stage a comeback, its tendrils have crept into every phase of graphic design, from TV logos to caftan prints. Of late, its variations have grown increasingly bizarre. Like a butterfly bombarded by gamma rays, art nouveau is mutating, intermarrying with the eye-jarring color schemes of op and the gaudy commercialism...
Eleanor Rigby, also scored for strings but boldly modern in harmonics and urgent cross-rhythms. In Love You To, they incorporated the sinuous sounds of Indian music, which Beatle George Harrison picked up during six weeks of study with Sitarist Ravi Shankar; soon raga-rock was all the rage...
...Sinuous Odalisques. Ironically, while Ingres cared little about them, his oil portraits and sketches are today more highly prized than his pretentious and cluttered "classical" set pieces on subjects such as the Apotheosis of Homer. No matter how classical his tastes, Ingres was infected with Romanticism. His sinuous, elongated odalisques contributed to the 19th century vogue for the Oriental...