Word: angular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised cartoon animation to high intellectual plane with stylized, angular drawing, while Disney's characters remain round, warm and fine companions. The drawing is so expert that after the first few minutes of watching the screen I forgot that Peter was being played by a number 3 indelible pencil...
Last night he alternated Incredible angular passing shots with his old reliable powerhouse net game; always in the right spot, Kramer proved himself master of the unexpected. Even a blase Radcliffe girl had to gasp, "He's fantastic...
...less exciting variation, The Sugar Plum Fairy, her technique was flawless. To Les Sylphides, she brought more spirit and charm; Michel Fokine's choreography includes a series of tours en l'air which Markova handled beautifully. At one point, however, she tangled with Paula Lloyd who is a more angular, energetic dancer, and who is not particularly well suited to this genre of ballet...
...variety of spiritual sloth, and free will as man's great burden ("Our bad actions belong wholly to us"). The book is written in a style that is almost spectacularly gaunt. In tone it resembles a medieval morality play; in shape, a modern dance confined to anguished and angular gestures...
Divorcement was an unexpected success. The nation's moviegoers took to the nasal voice, the angular face, the Bryn Mawr accent. Kate's second film, Christopher Strong, was a flop. But then she won an Oscar for her acting of the stagestruck girl in Morning Glory. As Jo in Little Women, her performance was so moving that Tallulah Bankhead knelt to congratulate...