Word: curvilinears
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...endless, semi-improvised popular comedy in which stock characters mimicked Europe's manners and morals, and lack of them (see color). There was Il Dottore, the gulled pedant; Mezzetino, the capering servant; Octavio, the youthful courtier; Scaramouche, the blustering rogue. Bustelli placed them in theatrical stances on curvilinear pedestals that swept up in rococo curlicues to counterbalance the curves and bends of the figures...
...faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, Voulkos and two fellow teachers organized a foundry on the junk-strewn east shore of San Francisco Bay. There he now works with huge wax blobs, which he melts and presses into thin sheets. He shapes the sheets into curvilinear planes, joins them into tormented, zigzagging giant winged forms, finally casts them in bronze and welds them into thrusting, soaring pieces of sculpture...
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio, 1313-1375. Curvilinear stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation...
...Nothing is extraneous. Everything works. Without the figure-eight pattern of its hand stitching, a baseball would be just another sphere. But the pattern is not for decoration, nor is it merely to hold the horsehide sections together-that could be accomplished by a seam around the middle. The curvilinear design provides a grip for the pitcher, and when the ball is released with a spinning action, the seam gives the sort of resistance in flight that makes a controlled curve possible. It is a perfect example of the law that in sport, as in architecture, a thing...
...pyramid-topped oratory, the church and its curvilinear chapel (which Corbusier calls "the rock" and the monks, despite his protests, call "the ear"), there are no statues. "There will be no distraction from images," Corbu told the monks. "If you want to be good fellows and show some friendship for your poor devil of an architect, you can do it by formally refusing every gift of stained glass, or images, or statues, which kill everything...