From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stage-hands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed".
The layers build up and up, tangling on paper and in the performance.
Around Sara's bike was a sea of miscellany: piles of papers, coasters, binders, souvenir mugs, tangled Christmas lights.
In fact, it was more than beautiful: it was a nearly canonical piece of abstract graphic design, the work of the celebrated modernist designer Massimo Vignelli, who decided that the only way to make the spaghetti tangle of subway lines comprehensible on paper was to straighten them out.
Maybe it was my imagination, but the stack of papers seemed thicker, shinier, silkier, revitalized, less tangled, more manageable.
There are strange matings: wires tangled with hair, bits of paper with plastic bag, trailings of thread with whatever.
She came into my classroom and produced a black piece of paper with irregular red streaks across it, and a wiry tangle of lines concentrated in the middle.
Legal papers and interviews with the participants depict Mr. DiFrancesco as caught in a tangle of conflicting business, political, personal and familial relationships.
The life-sized installation, STUCK, is a tangle of translucent tunnels and tendrils, some of which can comfortably fit five people as they page through papers written by the program's 18 student designers.
The current issue of Paper magazine features a modest Minaj on the cover: salmon blazer, lemon yellow top, Oscar-the-Grouch-green tangle of curls.
