Word: convex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR by JOHN ASHBERY 83 pages. Viking...
...dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that the intimacies never shock -except perhaps with the revelation of the extreme possibilities of what a dancer's body can be made...
...School has come up with the ultimate mind-destroyer with its exhibit in the library of the prints of M.C. Escher (through May 31). This is just not the time to have to deal with two-dimensional lizards becoming three-dimensional, or columns that turn from convex into concave, or water flowing up the side of a building, or fishes mutating into birds, or any of the other visual contradictions that his mad-genius mind came up with. Escher works best for sane people with clear, analytical minds. All others (and that includes most of us) confront...
...power corporation and an expert on solar energy. Encouraged by Historian Evanghelos Stamatis, who is a leading authority on Archimedes, Sakkas set out to prove that Archimedes could indeed have caused the Roman vessels to burst into flames. At first Sakkas figured that Archimedes might have used a large convex mirror to focus the sun's rays on the invading galleys. In fact, as early as the 6th century the mathematician and architect Anthemius of Tralles suggested that Archimedes had used a large hexagonal mirror. But Sakkas soon decided that such a large mirror was beyond the technology...
...found a James Bond atmosphere: "You can be sipping a gin fizz, chatting with London on the bar phone, going over the local paper and still keep an eye on Hughes' windows. The poolside steel band is throbbing. Your glance drifts upward and you zoom in on those convex ninth-floor balconies...