Word: blobbing
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...Athens in Antarctica might be easier to explain than the riddling ruins on Easter Island. More than 2,000 miles from the coast of Chile, still farther from the reefs of Tahiti, Easter is the world's most isolated islet: a tiny (45.5 sq. mi.) blob of wind-scraped lava jutting from the gray Pacific like a roost for passing frigate birds. Yet on its stony surface, dozens of enormous statues, known in local dialect as modi, stand and stare. Some of them rear up to a height of 40 feet; many of them wear a subtle expression that...
...Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded...
...Clothes these days demand something bigger than a blob," says society's favorite jewelry designer, David Webb. So he turns out 18-carat-gold chain belts, with pieces molded to resemble nuggets, worked into scrolls or encrusted with real emeralds, and made to double as necklaces. To draw attention to the newly bared midriffs, Costume Jeweler Leo Kepler has designed a lacy, see-through belt consisting of four widely spaced strands of gold. "If you want to be nice, you wear it at the waist," advises Kepler. "If you want to be naughty, you rest it on your hips...
False-Teeth Collage. The average visitor, ushered through the five galleries annexed to the Winnetka chateau belonging to Retailing Executive Robert Mayer, 57, wishes he had brought along his sunglasses: more than 450 works of op, pop, ob, blob, kinetic and frenetic art jump, creep, twitch, jiggle or blaze from every conceivable wall and cranny. Some of Mayer's purchases are spectacularly fine, including Robert Rauschenberg's Buffalo II, a recent star at the Sao Paulo Bienal. Many others are simply spectacular. For, as Mayer is the first to admit, he has something of a glass...
Esther looked up, surprised. She rose and approached the blob with a mixture of fulfillment and fright. She donned Walter's mittens, rubbed the condiment into the crimson carpet, turned to the door, slipped on the wet spot, fell, and broke her nose...