Word: worming
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...flesh squeezed under an environment that is all speed, cement and cars. Grey is an urban color." Squeeze seems to loom above the viewer far larger than its actual eight feet because its vanishing point is situated a foot or so below the painting, in what is known as "worm's-eye perspective." Traditionally, perspective was used to make a painting seem to open a window into the wall; Lukin uses the technique to make Squeeze...
...book with pacing sufficiently breathless to keep the audience from dozing off between songs. It's lucky, because the score is splendid. "Lover Number One," "The Jewels of the Crown," and "I'm Gonna Get My Man," are finely crafted showtunes. "The Early Bird Gets the Worm" got the kickline so carried away that one of the would-be sex kittens lost his head piece (he recovered the hair deftly, though he needn't have bothered; his own was long enough...
...confronting the University, asking it to help them or to reject them: "We want you to help us, to protect us, to throw Dow out. But if you do not, we are willing to accept your rejection, your punishment," they were saying. But the University was again able to worm its way out of the problem with a traditional ploy: it neither accepted nor rejected...
...EXPERIMENTAL: Cut, by Chris Parker, of the University of Iowa, is a difficult abstract work, with no apparent plot or sequence, which talks elliptically of Greek myths and their significance to film makers: "Film is like the snake, the worm Ourobouros, and like all continuous forms can be symbolic of evil." Montages of images cascade across the screen for 21 minutes while Narrator Parker reads the directions from the script ("Medium Shot: Wife on Ferris wheel, seat-five. Close up wife's frightened face . . .") in order to remind viewers that they are watching a film. The chaos is astonishingly...
...watch the worm beneath my nail