Word: ovular
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...imagined by Tardi, Nestor Burma has an ovular face with two dots for eyes and a permanent scowl. In profile, his face appears flat, like a blank wall, except for a bump of a nose and a pipe sticking out of a mouth that never opens, even when speaking. Tardi works in the classic French bandes dessinee style (a close match to the work of Japanese comix master Osamu Tezuka, incidentally) with near-photographic reproductions of backgrounds that the flat, "cartoonish" characters inhabit. The "Tintin" mysteries by Herge are the most famous example of this style, which Tardi updates with...
...other four panels are less overt figurative references to the battle. They are canvases scattered with many vibrant ovular epicenters of paint ablaze with yellow and scarlet. These forms could represent the burning ships viewed from above, but their visceral power is that of erotic and sexual implication. Among the blots of solid paint are red linear shapes of double-pointed ovals, the universal symbol for the vagina and sexuality. With the inclusion of prominent erotic symbols among his narrative of warfare, Twombly constructs a inexorable link between violence, destruction and aggression, on the one hand, and sexuality, sensuality...
...Hart, author of "New Hat," took the stage first. Tall and thin, he seemed the antithesis of his squat, ovular characters. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. Using an overhead projector, an assistant switched transparencies made from Hart's book, "The Collected Hutch Owen," while Hart read the dialogue and even such onomatopoeia as "blip" and "wham." Afterwards he took questions from the moderator and audience...
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