Word: sinuous
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...clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly...
...were the white-tied-and-tailed members of the Modern Jazz Quartet and around them, in predominantly green and purple practice clothes, moved the members of the New York City Ballet company, including Soloists Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, John Jones, Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy's frenzied exuberance. Schuller's score was the essence of the "cool"-spare, fragmentary, resembling jazz only in its rhythmic drive. Like some of Schuller's other recent work...
This startling first novel is a sinuous pagan rite. Faith is a sort of classic nymph, but instead of trees, rivers and mountains, she haunts galleries, fine restaurants and her tasteful London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between...
...Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...
...basic appeal remained: an air of geysering exuberance that seemed to reveal the dance to its emotional roots. Included were dances of tribal ritual, scenes of village life, a fairy tale about how the lions gained mastery over the panthers-all excitingly expressed in bounding leaps and spins, in sinuous, shuffling walk. The sets were sometimes too elegant and the costumes sometimes too flossy, but in one department of stagecraft the company had scored a clear triumph: New York, which last year had forced the women to wear brassieres, last week permitted them to dance bare-breasted-presumably in deference...