Word: sinuously
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...dancers writhe in sinuous embraces, quiver with rage or horror, or flash through the remarkably flexible configurations characteristic of Graham. But sheer movement alone is not enough to trace Phaedra's tangled web of emotion. Too dependent on narrative for which it could not always find a language, Phaedra was consistently interesting, not consistently successful...
...made a success ful Paris debut in 1925, later toured England with Maurice Ravel and English Soprano Maggie Teyte. He was already a major name in Europe when he made his U.S. debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1939. His sweet and singing tone and his flowing, sinuous style were an immediate success. Francescatti summers at his villa on the Riviera, seldom plays more than three concerts a week when he is touring. "They know me at my best on my records," says he. "This is what they want to hear, and they are right...
...sinuous as a salamander, the young woman flexed her junior-miss body, tossed her carefully . tousled strato-cumulus hairdo, and took a long drag on a Kool. "I've done lots of lousy films, but I hoped they would be good," she said. "Now I've done two pictures I know are good, and it's affected my whole life. For the first time I come home after work tired but exhilarated, instead of tired and depressed...
...retained a lifelong longing for the "green paradise of childhood." Ravel was determined that "the vocal line should dominate," and it does, against an orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...
...heroine seemed not so much indecent as psychopathic-a kind of cannibalistic sex kitten. Moving about the stage with catlike grace, her rich, ringing voice zooming with ease through the high, precarious lines, Tynes was by turns willful, vindictive, enraged. Dressed in a gold leotard, she moved with such sinuous authority through the notorious Dance of the Seven Veils (which most sopranos manage to make about as seductive as a mazurka) that some critics could not decide whether she was more gifted as singer or dancer. And in her final scene, in which she kissed and fondled the lips...