Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends fondly describe Modigliani, who emigrated from Italy in 1938 to escape anti-Jewish persecution, as a man filled with energy and enthusiasm. An indifferent dresser who fits the mold of the absentminded professor, Modigliani is known for grasping complex issues with amazing speed. For relaxation he turns to sailing, skiing and tennis, but his mind is never far from economics. He once developed an idea for a paper during a fierce tennis match against Samuelson...
After receiving numerous complaints about dead bugs, mold, and chipping paint in freshman dormitory bathrooms, Harvard in the last few weeks has sent repair crews to repaint--in some cases rebuild--dozens of the most run-down bathrooms...
...modern culture than in a cheese shop in Paris? Calvino enters wielding pen like bludgeon or scalpel, a bull in a cheese shop, breaking all the codes. He leaves the Reader with a picture of Mr. Palomar, balancing notebook on knee, pen on paper, scribbling down names, sizes, colors, mold formations, as if his frantic doodling could create another map of the stars, a gastronomy of everyday life. Mr. Palomar does take on a persona, and at the same time becomes a recognizable character, when he sonic booms his way out of his secret life back into social reality, disoriented...
...contrast, new Foreign Minister Shevardnadze is being cast by Kremlin image makers in the Gorbachev mold: honest, unconventional and with a flair for public relations. Described by one U.S. official in Washington as a "tough and capable man," Shevardnadze has visited only nine countries and has never served as a Soviet diplomat. Skeptics in Moscow have declared that the Foreign Minister's only qualification for his new job is that "he speaks a foreign language -- Georgian." (He is, however, said to speak some German.) Says Marshall Goldman of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "Of all the things that Gorbachev...
...works featured in the Boston Now: Photography exhibition are creative, not merery because of their subjects and composition. but for the ingenious ways they mold photography into art. Some of the artists concentrate on the image. the lighting, subjects, and angle, while others alter the medium, the paper and printing techniques. But each does something unique...