Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Congregation that will choose a new Black Pope. But the meeting is not likely to be convened until the fall of 1982. In the meantime, conservatives hope that John Paul will use his considerable influence to see that the next superior general is a man in his own mold, while liberals look for a successor who will further open the order to change. Yet both see the present discord as the sort of storm that Ignatius Loyola regarded as useful. Says Father Thomas Cullen, an American missionary in Brazil: "There is always going to be tension within the Jesuits...
...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...
...equally gripping scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Toht, the German villain (Ronald Lacey), dissolving into a puddle. How did Makeup Man Chris Walas do it? He began by taking a life mold of the actor's face. From that he made a plaster skull, which he covered with layers of chilled gelatin. When it came time for Toht to melt away, a heat gun-a super hair dryer-was turned on and the gelatin began to drip. So ended that particular Nazi menace...
Those who have read her 125 decisions on the Arizona appeals court, which deal with such routine legal issues as workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...France's economic troubles. From World War II on, France has lived under the shadow of one man: Charles de Gaulle. Since the General's death, the Gaullist legacy has continued. While not, in the strictest sense, a Gaullist, Giscard seemed to many to be trying to fit the mold. By the end of his seven-year term, he had evolved from a liberal reformer to an authoritarian figure who fancied himself King, not president. In Mitterand, the French opted for a more humane and less threatening figure...