Word: unevennesses
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...important role danced by the female corps de ballet. Swan Lake challenges the 32-member corps to match and refine their movements into one coherent unit, synthesizing their complex array of patterns and moods into a synchronized succession of "visual feasts." Despite a few mis-timed steps and occasionally uneven spacing, the corps de ballet was largely successful in creating its elegant illusion of swanhood...
...state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
...zine's primary focus on raunchy sex, however, undermines this melodramatic tone. Here, too, the writing is uneven. The first piece is entitled "Stiff" and relates how a college student is overcome with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above the corpse's groin would be "messy with incisions," she appreciates his legs as "muscular and hard as a rock, although rigor mortis was probably more responsible than exercise." Much to her delight, "the penis [was] still intact." While topics such as necrophilia, bestiality, and sadomasochism may sound intriguing, the poorly...
...When the air finally clears, only one skater still looks as if she is floating. She is Oksana Baiul, 16, the world figure-skating champion and the favorite to win the gold in the Olympics next month. It is astonishing that she can train at all on the soft, uneven ice, but a bad surface has been just one of the problems she has had to cope with...
...atop the white square, emphasizing the purity of its whiteness. Rothko's other work in the show, Untitled Brown and Gray (1969), has similar effects. However, he explores the density of the colors; the squares are more saturated at the connecting border than they are at the edges. This uneven concentration of color leads the eye to the uncovered, white paper. The juxtaposition of the dark form and the untouched whiteness produces a sharper sense of weight. Unfortunately this piece is in a glass case that catches all the lights in the room, imposing disruptive reflections on the work...