Word: contoured
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...same token, the classic-romantic pigeonholes have conspired to make us think of neoclassical art as sensually diluted. A sharp contour supposedly driveth out lust. Of course it does not, and the sensuality of a Delacroix nude seems quite uncomplicated beside the grandiose perversity of Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis. That monument of ivory and fulgid blue, with the nymph's body twining in supplication up the huge patriarchal block of a torso, achieves a sexual pitch within its insistent abstraction that not even Matisse could rival...
...paradoxes about De Kooning the draftsman is that his pencil, in movement, is always describing contour, even though the shapes one infers from the contours are rarely closed or fixed. His early pencil portrait drawings from 1940-41, done 15 years after he smuggled himself into America, are manifestly homages to Ingres-or, more precisely, to Ingres as filtered through Picasso. But that sense of exact and probing contour was not dissipated by De Kooning's progressive moves toward abstraction. Instead, it was reinforced. The line in Abstraction, circa 1945, knows exactly where it is going and what...
...consider peculiar. New machines are the Cadillacs of a farmer's life. Already, Plemel has bought a $1,400 gardening tractor for his lawn, a $7,000 utility tractor for his barnyard and a $25,000, four-wheel-drive tractor-complete with air conditioning, stereo and a contour seat designed by President John F. Kennedy's back specialist-for his fields...
...Strip-miners must restore the land to its "approximate original contour," thus eliminating all hillside gashes, depressions in or piles of soil on the earth. In addition, the miners can no longer dump debris over hillsides...
...bill is a disaster," says Carl Bagge, director of the National Coal Association. Bagge is especially critical of the provision requiring restoration of the land to its original contour: "It precludes us from employing other reclamation techniques that could leave the land suitable for a higher social and economic use [like creating lakes in abandoned pit mines] than it was in its original state." The bill will also raise coal prices; the cost of restoring the land, about 600 per ton of coal, will be passed along to the consumer...