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...declaring that it had capabilities. His was a romantic vision, sweeping away the last vestiges of formalism in broad pictorial vistas of lawn, woods and streams. In his work, Continental influences were finally replaced by a kind of landscaping thoroughly in harmony with the damp English climate and the contour of the land...
There are many factors which influence mothers in developing countries to bottle feed rather than breast feed their infants. These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations...
...have to excuse me if I didn't get some of the quotes right, but what can you say about a guy who wears a contour sheet and a down vest to his own toga party...
Some surgeons contend that there is a possibility, admittedly slight, that the radiation itself could cause future cancer. They argue, as the British Medical Journal recently said, that "cure is more important than contour." Yet Pierquin insists that for certain women between the ages of 40 and 50, there are particularly important aesthetic and psychological reasons for choosing radiation implants. As he explains it: "This is when the woman knows she is growing older and starting to lose her femininity, her power for seduction. The fact that she might undergo mutilation at this stage can be a catastrophe...
...Western art. Only one shape in our cul ture seems to rhyme with the strict parabolas of a tachi's profile: Brancusi's Bird in Flight, with its soaring curvature, immaculate surface and absolute finality of line. The resemblance is not merely formal. Just as the abstract contour of the Bird is rich with allusions to nature, so the blade contains landscapes...