Word: angular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students constantly complain about campus party facilities--most party-goers end up hot and sweaty after being stuffed like sardines into small angular suites with little ventilation...
...video explodes into angular movements andsurreal imagery which would be useless to describehere. But it's enough to say that the last 30seconds might be the worst revelatory materialMadonna has yet to produce. Dressed in a fiery redkimono (her breasts literally overflowing),Madonna dances in a narrow corridor. Her facialexpressions change by the second--she cries, shescreams, she feigns taking a gunshot, she smileshonestly, she smiles subversively, she pouts, shewhines, she scolds and finally, Madonna loses herhead...
...Lighting is wisely kept at a minimum. In theory, this would allow the photographs themselves to suffuse the room with patches of brightness. While a ghostly luminescence does seem to be emitted by some of the prints, supplemental track lighting glances off the glass of the smaller works, casting angular reflections on the hardwood floor that mimic the exhibit's strict geometrical lines...
...eerie. It makes a compelling argument for the Exodus story to be told in the unique language of animation. The film's colors and textures are handsomely diametrical: the cool elegance of Pharaoh's palace as opposed to the burnished warmth of the Israelites' huts and, more daringly, the angular Jewish features against the Africanized Egyptian...
...elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...