Word: contoured
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...Rice and Jenkins are just the most recent participants in a lively and long-standing tradition. From almost the moment the Gospels were set down, early Christian communities, church fathers, Pontiffs and random laity have colored in the lightly sketched character of Joseph, and in some cases extended his contour considerably. At first they elaborated his story to buttress embattled doctrines like the virginity of Mary. Later interpreters repurposed him to respond to crises in the church or in society, as various Popes raised up the image of Joseph as the Family Father, the Worker, or the patron...
Meanwhile, new companies are striving to take the comfort-shoe niche a step further by using technologies borrowed from the athletics and aerospace industries. Oh! Shoes, based in Portland, Ore., has been launched in a few test markets this fall, and features a multiple-contour foot bed and a six-part shock-absorption system in the heel. Company founder and CEO Greg Van Gasse says the heel technology took 1 1/2 years to perfect and reduces shock more than 30%. The shoes' aesthetic, however, still needs a little work...
...made a U-turn, for a second the car was facing sideways. Without road markings and the tarmac to reflect their beams, my headlights faded into the vast expanse of emptiness. For a moment, I saw nothing. No trees, no bushes and not one familiar contour of a sheep or cow behind the fences of a paddock. The illuminated dials in the dashboard seemed all there was in the world and the hum of the engine its only heartbeat...
...Three Columns Gallery, this translates to bright strips of industrial colored tape arranged in fluid rainbows over and around the space’s surfaces. Carefully placed pipes serve to both anchor the striations and further contour and distort by geometric displacement...
...Three Columns Gallery, this translates to bright strips of industrial colored tape arranged in fluid rainbows over and around the space’s surfaces. Carefully placed pipes serve to both anchor the striations and further contour and distort by geometric displacement...