Word: angularity
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...landscaping skills earlier this year, when he was arrested for attempting to cut down trees outside the Lampoon’s castle.)Powers receives many portrait requests, but says he is hesitant to paint people since “I’d make them look more architectural, angular.” Which, he adds, is paradoxical. “I try to make a clock have a little bit of human emotion,” he says. His tendency to blur lines is evident as he compares his painting of architectural lamps to flowers and the side view...
...expect the headquarters of Telenor, Norway's biggest telecom company, to reflect at least some of its Scandinavian side. Sure enough, meeting rooms are furnished with wooden floors, sleek tables and angular armchairs; there's even a breathtaking view of the Oslo Fjord. But look closer. The small silver plates and golden sculpted boats in one such room are from Bangladesh; the green-and-gold tea set, with its five matching cups, from Thailand. And the black-and-gold rug hanging on a wall is among the finest you would find anywhere in Pakistan...
...excess mass gives a nascent star too much angular momentum, preventing it from collapsing on itself to begin the process of nuclear fusion...
...angular momentum very efficiently is to squirt material out the poles of a rotating system,” says Goodman. Goodman and Borkin’s research focuses on counting and measuring these outflows...
...base for such a young band. Their sophomore effort and first full album, “Red, Yellow & Blue,” is a meatier work than its predecessor, not only in length (it’s more than 20 minutes longer) but in feel as well. While angular guitar riffs over precise drumming and a pulsing bass still make up a majority of the album, an acoustic track and a few down-tempo songs show an unexpected but welcome maturity. Granted, they haven’t fully dispensed with their energetic-indie-pop sheen, but that probably wasn?...