Tango is essentially a form of stylized walking; this pair, like great musicians, work in firm legato phrases.
The stylized scenes range from a pair of running legs to a bird's-eye view of a Middle East city under siege.
But it seems quite appropriate that it begins with a pair of small, stylized female figurines in terra cotta, circa 1450-1200 B.C., depictions of the Cypriot goddess, and ends with a naturalistic, nearly lifesize marble torso of the Greek Aphrodite from the first century B.C. found in the ocean bed off Cyprus in 1956.
At each side, pairs of muscular, stylized men appeared to tussle mightily over faceted lozenges.
The doors to the restrooms, lavatories, comfort stations and what the Brits call the loo or W.C. (for water closet) no longer rely on words; instead, we turn to stylized signals of a skirt or pair of pants, confusing though they may be in an era of slacks and jeans.
One day in the mid-nineteen-thirties, in the school locker room, Mr. Bromberg told me, Joe Shuster came to him looking for his opinion on some new drawings: pencil sketches of a stylized cartoon strongman cavorting in a pair of circus tights, with a big letter-S insignia on his chest.
But just as everyone's worst fears are about to be realized (big guys fighting! in a theater!), the pair fling themselves into a stylized, spotlighted struggle onstage.
The only beautiful object was a Chinese trunk carved from some kind of tropical wood, as red as raw liver, with thick brass hinges and a pair of fanciful brass locks in the form of stylized peacocks.
"Samarkand," a pair of hinged painted aluminum panels incised with a stylized chrysanthemum motif, illustrates Mr. Youngerman's synthesis of Asian and Middle Eastern sources to create a screen that is both a gatelike barrier and a filigreed window to the space beyond.
At Kisan, Ms. Needleman picked out the Whale Tongs, a pair of magnetized wooden salad tongs in the shape of stylized whales.
