Word: jaggedness
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On a bare stage beneath a jagged ice floe, a chorus of penguins sang a solemn farewell to the explorer, who had just lurched off into the Antarctic night. The audience was not sure what it was watching, but the composer had no doubts. Said Winfried Zillig: "It's...
Pounding on Nerves. Along with his fellow expressionists, he was trying not so much to paint reality as to convey the sensation that reality inspired in him. While the contemporary French impressionists were often methodically scientific, the German expressionists were both romantic and subjective. Every stroke of the brush was...
In his off-the-cuff substitutions for formal speeches, Kennedy sometimes raced too briskly to the point; often he was guilty of oversimplification. But in happier moments (notably in press conferences and informal question-and-answer sessions), he impressed the experts with his detailed knowledge, eloquence and deft uptake. As...
For Texas, which now plans its first major sale of offshore leases since 1953, the decision will mean millions of dollars annually. For Louisiana, it means the possible loss of more than $300 million in past bonuses and royalties from the disputed lands, which last year yielded 29 million bbl...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). In a film artfully woven of languorous daydreams and short, jagged episodes of violence and death, a Japanese architect and a French actress find that love can grow from the atomic rubble of Hiroshima.