Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...
Diego Rivera was born a hundred years ago, in 1886, and he died of cancer in 1957: 71 years, not a long life by Picassian standards, but a staggeringly exuberant and productive one. All his attributes as an artist, including his sometimes overweening vulgarity, were cast in a large mold. He became a symbol, the key figure in cultural transactions between North and Central America in the first half of the 20th century. He played his role for Mexico, part ambassador and part genius loci, to the hilt. His energy had a titanic quality: he covered many acres of wall...
Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...
First, President Bok conspired to influence the character of the Board of Overseers, an independent governing body which represents the Harvard alumni and theoretically maintains a check on his own authority to mold Harvard policy. President Bok, who has long opposed divestment from firms operating in South Africa, sought to discourage alumni from voting for three Overseers candidates running on a divestment platform...
...clothes as radical as anything that has happened in fashion in the past quarter-century. Notes Laura Sinderbrand, director of the design laboratory at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology: "They were in the forefront of giving us new shapes. They helped us break out of the mold of the set-in sleeve, fitted waistlines, rounded necklines." "Every single fashion designer has copied their skirts, shapes, wraps," comments Alan Bilzerian, who sells a lot of Japanese design in his forward-looking Boston and Worcester, Mass., stores. "They have inspired the entire world and told them...