Word: contoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie be more like a woman? How is it that Hollywood films are usually built like Arnold Schwarzenegger--big and burly, with way more muscle power than is needed? Much rarer is the notion that a film can address the subtleties of emotion, that it can have curve and contour, beauty and heart. In the '90s, alas, the Oscar category of Best Actress has become a chic, sparse ghetto. It's hard to find five films in which women have exciting, dominant roles...
...like to use the apprenticeship program,"he says. "It all starts off with contour drawing--just lines. Then the artistic expression begins...
After identifying a suitable picture, Parkercopies it onto an overhead projector and explainsto the children the piece's contour and form. Thestudents trace the patterns onto a fiberglass orwooden billboard which often is larger than 200square feet. Then they begin painting, he says...
...latest pseudoscientific pronouncement. The prime mover behind the project, Cavalli- Sforza, 72, a Stanford professor, labored with his colleagues for 16 years to create nothing less than the first genetic atlas of the world. The book features more than 500 maps that show areas of genetic similarity -- much as contour maps match up places of equal altitude. By measuring how closely current populations are related, the authors trace the pathways by which early humans migrated around the earth. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree...
Ironically, McCloskey has shown far more leadership than many other representatives who needn't worry about their return trip to Washington. While he has rebelled against the prevailing appeasement of the Serbs, more prominent Congresspersons with more leeway in their districts have followed every contour of the Clinton waffle...