Word: angular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schiele's paintings are anything but pleasant. His people (see color) are angular and knobby-knuckled, sometimes painfully stretched, sometimes grotesquely foreshortened. His colors are dark and murky, and his landscapes and cityscapes seem swallowed in gloom. But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination...
...Forbes' reading of the Magnificat was brisk and business-like, but not much else. The singing was often angular and disjointed; and the orchestra had enough trouble merely trying to follow the beat. Neither of the two seemed at all at ease with the other, and both together produced a rawness of tone that is often the product of an insufficient number of joint rehearsals...
...most part the effect was spare and angular-a little like the small-toned, pointillistic compositions of Anton von Webern...
...even the Western bride's protective coloration was coming under fire. In the Times of India, Columnist Amita Malik recently launched a cutting campaign against foreigners in saris. "If there is anything uglier than an Indian matron in bulging jeans," she snapped, "it is a white woman, tall, angular and with straw-colored hair, wearing a Dacca sari Foreign wives fondly imagine that they look beautiful in saris, when they would look miles better in gingham...
...were the sexy numbers, so torrid that the Festival Committee had at first been threatened by the censor: an undulating dance by an all-but-nude ballerina waiting for the arrival of her lover; a passionate embrace in the course of which two lovers move across the stage in angular jetés. The best dancing was provided by young Italian Ballerina Carla Fracci (TIME, Feb. 22), who gave a moving, superbly disciplined portrayal of a grieving girl. The whole thing ended with an epilogue demonstrating that for all the Boccaccian low jinks, virtue triumphs after all. Somewhat baffled critics...