Word: angular
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DIED. HOMER AVILA, 48, modern dancer whose austere, angular choreography kept him dancing even after he lost his right leg and hip to cancer; of lung cancer; in New York City. Renowned for his work with Avila/Weeks Dance, a company he co-directed, he was performing a solo piece less than a year after the April 2001 amputation, moving on his elbow...
...headed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Thanks to the sleeve for the railway that sits atop the center's V-shaped roof, it has an aggressively awkward exterior, like a shed being crushed by a giant auto muffler. Inside it's a kind of bright angular cyclotron designed for the purpose of accelerating human fusion. By encouraging students to literally cross paths at every turn, it offers itself as a substitute for the city that once bordered closely on the campus before urban renewal swept it away. "By the time we arrived," Koolhaas says, "the city...
Chicago’s the 90 Day Men storm Cambridge with their angular, loud and electrifying math rock. Touring off their new album Panda Park, the 90 Day Men will be joined on stage by post-punk revivalists the Ponys and garage rockers Man Man. Tickets $9. +18. 9 p.m. The Middle East Upstairs...
...location where it brings that feeling to bear--at ground zero in New York City. Calatrava was chosen last year to design the $2 billion new terminal there for the PATH commuter line that connects Manhattan with New Jersey. The design he unveiled in January is an angular palisade of white ribs with an upward thrust that he says was inspired by the idea of a child releasing a bird into the air. If ever there was a place that needed a building that lifted the spirit, it's that place. Now it may get one. --By Richard Lacayo
...surprising how much of the 30-minute album is devoted to instrumental—the first song is entirely free of vocals, and on several others, Billotte’s voice only enters after a lengthy introduction. These instrumental bits are difficult to take on their own, too angular to work as kitschy surf-rock, but too stripped-down to be as effectively melodic as the pre-punk greats like Link Wray, whom the band seems to pay homage...