Word: rigidities
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...work hardly began until he had turned his 40th year. But the influences were already being laid down. A student of law and political economy at the University of Moscow, he visited rural Russia on an ethnological survey in 1889 and there saw a lot of folk art. Its rigid iconography and flamboyant patterns made a vast impression on him; the ceremonious detail of his later abstractions, with their tiny squares, circles and triangles "tuning" each other like embroidery-as in Pink Sweet, No. 481, 1929-is very Russian. Even Kandinsky's subsequent color theory, his belief...
After two and a half years at odds with what he perceived as the rigid values and structure of the University, he took a leave and did a tour of service in Viet Nam. Thus his first fictional effort was partially autobiographical--the synthesis of his combat experience in Southeast Asia and subsequent exposure to the politics of protest upon returning to Cambridge in 1967. According to Sloan, the nameless hero of his first book does not choose to take up the family tradition and enter politics upon his return from Viet Nam, nor does he completely eschew identification with...
High Gloss. As a choreographer, Champion is admirably disciplined. The execution is flawless, but Champion's dance imagination is rigid. He favors locomotive choreography in which the chorus chug-chug-chugs around and occasionally wigwags its outstretched arms semaphore-fashion. This is fine for motion, but scanty of meaning. The dances could be inserted in another musical, where they would mean no more and no less than they do in Sugar...
...that act seemed foolhardy, it was nevertheless typical of Gallo, who never had the sense to play by the rigid rules of the brotherhood. He grew up with his brothers Larry and Albert in Brooklyn's Bath Beach, where mobsters often dumped their victims. One of his neighbors recalled Joey as "the kind of guy who wanted to grow up to be George Raft. He would stand on the corner when he was 15, flipping a half-dollar, and practice talking without moving his lips...
...Early this week the Environmental Protection Agency will begin hearings that may delay enforcement of these standards until 1976 or later. U.S. automakers charge that the standards are too rigid and would drastically increase car prices...