Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same memo, Malek suggested, "next, we will form a task force in each Department chaired by the Under-Secretary and containing the politically reliable Assistant Secretaries and sub-Agency heads...
Malek found his wish come true in the form of a sagging tool manufacturing business in Orangeburg, South Carolina, called the Triangle Corporation. To this day Malek beams as he relates how he applied hard-nosed management techniques to turn a $1-million deficit into a $1-million profit in his few years in Orangeburg...
Severe in stiffened white net and a feathered crown, Prima Ballerina Tamara Karpova delicately wafts across the stage. Rising onto her toes, she pirouettes daintily. The audience starts to giggle. If her style is classic, Karpova's form decidedly is not. No long-limbed Balanchine girl she. At 5 ft. 6½ in., 160 lbs., Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone...
...less Edgewater, which he had bought in 1950. Searching for a way to support himself with his pen, Vidal decided to try writing for television. The Iron Pyrites age had arrived and with it came a voracious demand for new material. Vidal rapidly mastered the demands of the teleplay form and ultimately commanded fees as high as $5,000 for a one-hour script...
...Truman Capote: "He's made lying an art form-a minor art form...