Word: angular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference is the turreted clapboard mansion in Circa 1880. "I liked the angular shadows the light made, and the way it hit the bay window...
...free-style part of the competition, Sonya's dazzling jumps, spins and double loops earned her top honors. Tenley was second. Said third-place Virginia: "I'm on a cloud." Joining incomparable Dick Button on the men's team: angular Jimmy Grogan, 20, of Colorado Springs, a frequent runner-up to Button, and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 18, a freshman at Northwestern University...
There, parishioners found him a kindly, angular six-footer, who could play both Bach and boogie-woogie on the piano, and liked to give big coffee parties after church. He was also a man who could inspire faith whether in or out of the pulpit. Every Sunday before service, adults and children would flock to his classes at the church's school, and every Monday evening many would come back for more...
...Rattner, is the most advanced of the group. Although his paintings have a fiery tone, they communicate powerful and lucid feelings. He shows a remarkable awareness of color relationships and exhibits a confident, though hasty, use of the brush. His "Three Soldiers" is immediately desperate and terrifying. The angular faces, large eyes, and crooked hands enforce the dramatic effect. Selecting similar reds and yellows, Cooke has painted a portrait of Christ which is both warm and sympathetic. A self-portrait in blue and a landscape are less successful, however, because of "worked-over" execution. Also included is an abstraction done...
Seventy-two-year-old E. M. Forster is almost as rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American interviewer put it, rather "like a spare, intelligent, ruffled heron...