Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach has managed to mold 12 individual ball players into a smoothly operating team," Leondis said. "Next year we're going to do a fine...
Thus, Satch the Psychologist has shown he knows the principles of human motivation. But whether he will be able to mold a team that is a playing unit with such tactics is another matter. Sanders benched Carey after he had burst to six of the first eight Crimson points on the Quakers, although the only thing standing between the sophomore All-State Michigan forward and future All-Ivy berths is a hefty dose of confidence. Jenkins has changed from a former consistency to mercurial play. Silver, the pillar of the Harvard offense for so long this year, looks...
Like a radio drama heard in a dark room, the sound of Teresa's voice seems the most important thing in the world for a few moments. Loving, whining, and remembering everything, she is dramatically true and completely sympathetic. She absorbs life around her, pours it into the warped mold of her own experience, and then utters it forth again, transformed, without self-pity or egotism...
...Star is a subdued version of its naughtier British sisters. Its models are more or less clothed and the focus is on entertainment, sports and advice ("Let us make you a star") rather than scandal. Its layout is in the British popular mold: narrow columns, small body type, terse stories, a welter of breathless headlines, jumbled boxes and graphics-all suggesting an earthquake in the composing room. Once they get past the frenetic format, American readers may feel let down by the torpor of Star stories...
...Oriental features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made the figures rounder and softer, with bellies and bottoms," says William O'Connor of Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams as a display gimmick for Sakowitz windows. Not to be outdummied, Gimbel Bros, requested a model of Heiress Sophie Gimbel; Garfinckel's in Washington, D.C., asked...