Word: sinuously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added ballast of history to Merrill's already established lyric and autobiographical skills; Ephraim's was the spirit of a number of ages, and he proved himself to be a talkative and entertaining tour guide. The imaginary collaboration yielded a poem of rare ambition and scope, a sinuous, sensuous meditation on death and timelessness...
...duet arrangements of such exotic morsels as Le Bananier and Orfa. These performances, cleanly accented and subtly colored, gave a glimpse of Gottschalk's true originality as a composer. At his best, he adapted the Creole and plantation tunes of his native New Orleans, mixed them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More...
...least among the island's beauties are its beauties. Maui boasts some of the world's most exotic women. Many flashing-eyed, sinuous wahines are hapa-haole, meaning half Caucasian; others are apparently products of every conceivable ethnic mix. Of the larger islands Maui has the state's biggest proportion of Polynesian-descended Hawaiians and part...
Neighboring Ganymede, like Callisto, is at least half composed of water and ice. It shows sinuous ridges and crisscrossing fractures that look like earthly fault lines-possibly caused by what Soderblom calls "water quakes." Ganymede's surface is less cratered than Callisto's and only a fourth its age, about 1 billion years...
Seething gases and liquids mask its rocky core. Its frigid atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen and helium. Great cyclones and hurricanes swirl in its turbulent sky, with brilliant red and orange clouds constantly merging and breaking apart in ever changing patterns. Often the turbulence creates trails of sinuous white vapors thousands of miles long. The awesome, forbiddingly beautiful world is that of Jupiter, a planet so large it could swallow more than 1,300 earths...