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"Taking out too much fat was what led to the concavities and deformities we saw in the past," says Dr. Alexander Swistel, director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center in New York City.

From Time Magazine Archive

Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing to stop the eye, the hand, or the mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing—and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the edges to the center they were worn down in oval concavities to half their thickness.

From Time Magazine Archive

We slept in caves in storm; in the lee of icebergs in strong winds and on the mossy cushions of earth concavities.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.