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...radioactive intensity. Since then, he's moved on to fiberglass, resin, acrylic and stainless steel, but almost always playing with the threshold between the solid and the immaterial, the point at which a thing comes into being or dematerializes, or the ways a massive solid form, like Inwendig Volle Figur (inwardly turning full figure), can also be a giant entryway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

Many German women are fighting a determined rearguard action, nonetheless. Sales of foundation garments have quadrupled since 1950, and slimming parlors have become almost as thick as Germany's beloved whipped cream. In Bonn, where a session at the stylish Salon der Figur ranges from $6 for a plump pubescent to $125 for a well-marbled dowager, Owner Helga Pietsch sighs: "Ninety percent of the German women who come in here don't even know what a calorie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Adipose Society | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Bloodlike o'er the figur'd floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A YEAR AGO. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

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