Word: angular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cartoons are the laughingstock of journalism; they are not a long-term investment. Put between covers, the illustrations and captions seem prematurely aged and irrelevant. This year three exceptions prove that rule. George Price's angular eccentrics have been celebrated for 45 years; his latest work, Browse at Your Own Risk (Simon & Schuster; 128 pages; $7.95), is aptly titled. The risk is seizures of mirth that render the reader helpless. Price's pen and punch line are, as always, off the wall: "My mother doesn't even bother to come to the games," complains one halfback...
...best moments, Carmina Burana was a work of splendor and integrity. In the final scene, which mirrors the first, the figure of Fortune is lifted above an encircling crowd: the conical form consummating the angular choreography of the work's most arresting dances--the cyclical theme exulting in the deepest pattern of all bodily life. If the overriding contrast in the Boston Ballet's performance were between a great classic's ethereality and a modern work's affirmation of the senses, there could be no doubt where the Company's own preferences...
...result these green stone animals have a charm that is comparatively lacking in the artists' self-portraits. These, on the whole, are angular with distorted features. They seem to reflect the strain of a life of constant struggle with the elements. A striking example of this spirit is a family group carved out of a single block of black soapstone. The figures are huddled together. They are heavy, clumsy and coarse-featured, but oddly uncertain, despite their solidarity. Likewise, a carved hunter seems very much at the mercy of his surroundings. His axe raised and face contorted, he twists, almost...
...titled "America in a Hostile World." He called for a "new international economic order" and for new American leadership to help create it-a leadership that would set "politically and morally compelling directions to which the public might then positively respond." Now the Polish emigre academic, a man of angular features whose crew cut seems a carryover from the '50s, is comfortably entrenched in the West Wing of Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner office once occupied by another foreign-born but very different ex-professor, Henry Kissinger. Brzezinski...
...sense, Saint Laurent has designed the emperor's new clothes. His soft, flowing dresses, characterized by full sleeves and a loose obi caressing the hips, are adaptations of angular Chinese designs. Over these dresses or over satin pants are worn gargantuan wraps-a peplum coat sewn with real gold thread cloth, costing over $200 a meter, or a massive Genghis Khan jacket made of iridescent brocades and lined with fur. Saint Laurent set off his ensembles with high-heeled boots and a variety of hats, including pillbox and coolie styles...