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.
The Daily Telegraph's Sameer Rahim admired the novelist's "alertness to the subtleties of human relationships" and "quiet epiphanies", while conceding it was a "knotty work".
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.
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.
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.
Theatre Royal, to 7 Feb LG A new play from Timberlake Wertenbaker, best known for Our Country's Good, will always be of interest and it's good to see Watford's artistic director Brigid Larmour – who also directs here – continuing to programme knotty new work with this play about the birth of modern America.
At forty-seven, Guillem no longer dances en pointe; instead she chooses knotty contemporary works.
He dispatched the cascades of octaves and knotty passage work with command.
Mr. Schaeffer has staged the show before for the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., and he clearly has an instinctive grasp on this knotty, fascinating work.
