Another knotty work is "Untitled (IBM 15x10)," a ceramic doodad that hangs from the ceiling and produces, with the aid of a compressor and soap bubbles, a column of foam that gradually oozes from the top and takes unpredictable forms.
Mr. White's cherished pop-music videos, with their fast editing and smoothly polished surfaces, stand in obvious contrast to the rough, knotty work of artists like Mr. Kuchar and Mr. Harris.
Liszt was a champion of knotty works that mystified the public: not only music by contemporaries but also older scores, like the late Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas.
Organized by the Association of Professional Working Parents, the evening was an opportunity to use the much-talked-about book and film as a starting point for tackling knotty work-life balance issues.
In the knotty working out of this theory, Dr. Edelman's supporters see him developing a new view of the body and mind.
If many graphic novels are, as Barack Obama put it about Hillary Rodham Clinton, likable enough, few are knotty works of art, things you'd eagerly give to both the sulky teenager in your life and your grandmother who reads serious nonfiction and thinks comics are infra-dig.
Dream ballets or mirrors held up to a knotty world?
The most appealing thing about Nesser's morose cop, who tackles a murder investigation as if it were a knotty chess problem, is the way his mind works.
The work we discuss depended on solving a knotty methodological problem: how to discover what is going on in the minds of preverbal infants and very young children?
Beceem said yes, and Cadence engineers flew from Noida down to Bangalore to help Beceem work through the nuances of using the design tools (and fiddle with the tools to make them solve a knotty WiMax challenge).
