Word: sinuous
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...craftsmanlike touches, which had been passed down through 2,000 years of Egyptian civilization. Artisans eschewed the hard-tipped metal tools used by foreign sculptors, pounded away at the quarry rock with stone cutting tools, polished the finished work with quartz sand. Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted. So perfect was the technique of these artisans that even today no modern steel cutting tool can achieve the same sable smoothness on hard stone...
...Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity of dance, which would remove the distinction between aria and recitative." As a result, Ondine offered few pyrotechnics, gained its effects instead through sinuous mass movements in which the undulation of arm and body suggested forests of sea plants stirring to unseen tides. The sense of submarine fantasy was reinforced by Stage Designer Lila de Nobili's fine scenery: a castle of mist and fruitfulness, shadowy crags and waterfalls, aqueous skies streaked pink...
...Italy, working in a sort of roving revue, Juliet met a quiet, handsome dancer named Sergio Fadini. They fell in love, teamed up and toured the European nightclub circuit. Ambitious for her, Fadini helped polish Juliet's acting, her fine singing voice, her sinuous dancing. They were in Spain last year when Fadini heard that Choreographer Hermes Pan was also there, looking for dancers to take back to Hollywood for Can-Can. Fadini himself arranged the interview...
...point) to produce sounds as weird as anything in the world of electronic music. The first movement in last week's performance built to a climax with express-train power. The quieter second movement gained its effect from the almost somnolent alternation of the piano's sinuous theme with the whisper of a drum, the rasp of a snare, the tinkle of a triangle; the wildly fragmented third movement erupted in brief, craggy patterns stitched together only by the surgical precision of Reiner's conducting...
...Museum surrounds this outstanding work with many of Picasso's graphics and watercolors. Especially beautiful is the 1918 pencil drawing, Bathers, which displays the sure control of sinuous line that characterized his so-called "Neo-Classical" period. Also of great interest is his View of Horta De Ebro, a small, lyric landscape done in 1900. The more than twenty pieces in this exhibit demonstrate the completeness and general high standards of the Fogg's acquisitions. For a university museum, one could hardly imagine a better record of connoisseurship...