Word: convexity
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...that major recognition arrived, however, when he bagged all three of the nation’s major poetry prizes—the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award—for his collection “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” Since then, he has continued to innovate, experimenting with double columns, shorter forms, and artistic perspectives...
Meyer’s firm, Convexity Capital Management, traces its name to a bond term that describes the convex relationship between price and yield for bonds. Meyer’s fund is expected to focus on bonds as two of the top managers that Meyer took with him—David Mittelman and Maurice Samuels—were renowned bond traders at HMC. Mittelman and Samuels were also the two highest paid managers at HMC in the past two fiscal years...
...result? A modest little pedestal just over 1 ft. high and 3 in. wide, with a gently convex front and slightly in-curving sides. It's sleeker and slimmer than the old Xbox. (One of the reasons the first one tanked in Japan is that Japanese consumers, having smaller apartments, are very space conscious.) It's also a little feminine--there's a hint of an hourglass figure. There are very few cables because the controllers are wireless. It has chrome accents, but it's mostly a creamy, calming off-white that the color geniuses call chill...
...nine featured student poets presented a wide range of influences, styles and subjects. By the end of the evening, the audience had heard forms of poetry ranging from dramatic monologue to pantoum, allusions to artistic works as varied as “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” by John Ashbery ’49, and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” and poems that dealt with animal testing, parental remarriage and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
They were all dancers. James Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a dancer's equilibrium would have fallen on his face. Henry Fonda was just the opposite: a triumph of convex geometry, his thin body a question mark that ambled at Stepin Fetchit pace toward a girl or a cause. Katharine Hepburn seemed always on the ascendant, scaling the invisible ramp of her own confidence. But of all the Golden Age Hollywood stars it was Fred Astaire who defined screen movement...