Word: compressibility
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Given the high finish of his marbles, the roughness of his terra-cotta models comes as a surprise. In the first heat of exploring a motif, Canova worked as quickly and directly, almost, as Rodin, squeezing and knifing the clay to slab out the shapes. On occasions, he could compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...
...complain on an empirical level: If one were to compress all the dialogue that the protagonist, Tom Riley (James Marshall), delivers throughout the film, excluding grunts and growls, one would not fill even the time it takes him to knock out a bloodied opponent in the ring...
...went into effect barely a week before Icahn's abrupt withdrawal from USX. The take from Icahn's sale was more than $1 billion -- impressive on paper, yet a measly 25% return on his investment over five years. Icahn's continuing problems at TWA apparently cry out for a compress of cold cash from his deep -- yet clearly not bottomless -- pockets...
...Ford said he attempted to compress as much as he could into the 18 points--a difficult task considering the complexity of the system...
...College of Radiology has responded with a drive, launched in 1989, to examine and certify mammography facilities. It advises patients to choose a high-volume accredited facility. Another sign that a mammogram is up to snuff: the ouch factor. To get a good picture, the mammography machine must compress the breast. "If you're not uncomfortable," says UCLA's Fox, "you're probably getting a bad mammogram...