Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barracuda Side. Summer and Smoke put her into something of a mold, and people anxious to keep her there liked to say that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different...
...first of these was the notion of adapting educational programs to fit the student, rather than bending the student into a rigid academic mold. This idea of educating the individual qua individual continues strong today, Pusey said, and forms the justification for the College's tutorial program, and, more recently, for the freshman seminars...
...about her. In the current Harper's, Penelope Gilliatt, wife of Playwright John Osborne, moons about Marilyn's "innocent and anxious talent'' that was wasted in the Hollywood child-woman fixation: "One sensed that Marilyn Monroe had probably been made tragically unhappy by the infant mold that was forced upon...
...There would be no wasteful competition among nations, for example, as in the free-market EEC; instead, each member would be assigned to produce what it could make best. But to Soviet chagrin, some of the satellites are proving as balky as De Gaulle about shaping themselves to the mold...
...come wrapped by the manufacturer. Such unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films are being developed that can wrap around liquids and eliminate the need for bottles...