Though she worked with Twyla Tharp while Ms. Tharp's work took off into bravura areas of partnering, storytelling and virtuoso technique, Ms. Rudner's own dancing has always exemplified the most beautiful control of what has been called "democratic dance".
Two weeks into the new HBO series Girls, one character has emerged as the most divisive: Marnie, the gorgeous, uptight roommate of the show's heroine, Hannah … Marnie is not TV's first beautiful control freak: She fits squarely into a character type formed by Mad Men's Betty and Sex and the City's Charlotte, two stunning women with deep neuroses.
Beautiful, controlled surfaces are all-important on their album, presenting songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, who figures in the past of the three principals.
Ms. Lenormand sang his best-known work, "La Mer," with beautiful breath control and gamin sweetness.
The opening storm scene is over-the-top gesticulation under beautiful directorial control.
"As much as there's a lot of buzz that dancers get hurt a lot," she said, "there was probably something dancers were doing rigorously for years in the way they master balance and jump, landing with mutual alignment and beautiful neuromuscular control, that is helping to protect them.
Not only did they manage a picture-perfect launch, but they also recovered two of three rocket cores in a jaw-droppingly beautiful (simultaneous!) controlled landing.
Since then, I have installed beautiful remote controlled blinds that insulate the windows, gun metal silk window treatments and a white shag rug.
The key to the company's new Fan TV box, being shown off at D11 today, isn't the content that users have access to, but a beautiful, trackpad-like control that was designed by Yves Behar, as well as a search and discovery screen for navigating all that live, recorded, and streaming content.
But as we get older and food becomes intermingled with emotions, we eat past the point of fullness to make ourselves feel safe, or to stuff down anger or hurt, or skip meals to make ourselves feel more beautiful and in control.
The long lines of her adagio (at 4.00-5.00, for instance) are beautiful, and beautifully controlled.
