Word: archness
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...track’s end, layering one line upon the other without much tonal or vocal variation. One song, however, does break from this monotony. “Dance Floor,” the album’s first single, succeeds in shaping for itself a dramatic arch. About two minutes in, it crescendos, followed by a lull that accentuates this change. The track also boasts an interesting rhythm, one with a sense of momentum brought on by the Apples’ careful use of enjambment: “But my / Body’s still moving...
These films, and the Disney version in 1951, had their incidental pleasures but also an arch, starchy tone to the parade of Carroll's lunatics. What the author needed all along was a kindred cinematic soul: a grownup with the reckless imagination of a child or a nonsense artist, a director who'd impart a wonder to Wonderland...
...Storm King Art Center Stretching west of the Hudson River for about 200 hectares, this mammoth park is big enough to justify the tram tours. Notable works include Alexander Calder's The Arch, a fearsome structure that looks like something left behind by alien visitors, and Louise Nevelson's City on the High Mountain - a piece in black steel that abstractly suggests an urban dystopia and might remind visiting Manhattanites not to hurry home. More details at www.stormking.org...
...They were signposts for modernity, theirs and the nation's. For New York City and Washington, Saarinen provided airport terminals that were symbols of the excitement and glamour of air travel. (It was once possible to think of air travel that way.) Then there was his St. Louis Gateway Arch, a gleaming vertical curve that even now could serve as the logo for Tomorrowland...
...Miami Beach hotels. For the most part, the wow factor in his buildings was a matter of structure, not sparkle. Saarinen was enchanted by the drama of powerful forms. His mother was a sculptor, and he had studied sculpture before switching to architecture. The massive curve of the Gateway Arch, the muscular reach of the tilted pylons of Washington's Dulles International Airport, the black-granite palisades of the CBS headquarters, his only skyscraper, a thing that appears to shoot skyward from the bedrock of Manhattan - these are works of an architect, like Gehry and Calatrava today, who was thinking...