Word: blockishness
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...feature a penis, or penis-shaped object. In several houses, previous designs and current proposals have shown a distinct tendency to veer towards the phallic in their attempt to inspire house pride. Mather house, for example, last year clothed its troops in a design featuring the blockish Mather Tower in a phallic shape with the witty shibboleth, “Nice Unit,” underneath. This trend is perhaps understandable. As feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949, “The individual’s specific transcendence takes concrete form in the penis...
...sure enough, the food at the University of Dar es Salaam was awful. Mornings are a piece of fried bread (called chapati), a blockish hunk of porridge and a cup of foul tea. The saving grace, of course, is that these unappetizing and meager tidings cost around 400 shillings, the equivalent of 35 cents...
...Sabiston’s design to, in a sense, digitally paint over them. It was tedious work (about 250 hours of animation work went into each minute of film), but the effect is astonishing. What we see is like a moving painting, at times very representational, at others more blockish and abstract. Each of the animators has been assigned a separate character or scene, and their different styles come across in the varying levels of surrealism. Some scenes simply look like grainy photographs, while others are dizzyingly wacky. Lips float off of faces. Walls refuse to hold still...
...doggedly competitive spirit of pseudo-childish Play and Fun seems to have taken over the thinking of the sneaker industry. Something of the same archly juvenile outlandishness has been at work designing women's shoes, which have the look of illustrations in a children's story - blockish and clunkish and exaggerated. All fashion is an aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman...
...even Nude Woman Having Her Hair Combed, circa 1886-88, the most refined and classical of these nudes, seems in the least Renoiresque, though nothing could be more appealing than that pink, slightly blockish body against the gold couch and the regulating white planes of peignoir and apron. It was a subject to which Degas brought special, almost fetishistic feeling, and a later version of the same theme, The Coiffure, 1896, shows what a vehicle for innovation it could be: the contours of the woman and her maid are now roughed out with an almost fauve abruptness, and they emerge...