Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search committee's affinity for Rudenstine's background was no fluke. The man who may very well have been its second choice fit this professional mold as well. Gerhard Casper became dean of the University of Chicago Law School in 1979 at 41 before becoming provost there...
...candidates who fit the mold of many past Harvard presidents, Medical School geneticist Philip Leder '56 and Harvard chemist Jeremy R. Knowles, were each knocked out for the same reason--lack of administrative experience...
...presidential candidates, Tsongas and Wilder give new meaning to the term underdog. Neither has ready access to big bucks. Tsongas left the Senate six years ago suffering from cancer. He says that he beat the disease. Conquering his image as a cool, cerebral Ivy League lawyer in the Dukakis mold may be just as tough...
...million cows in the U.S.?") or speaking Japanese with the high school principal, he is making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell-O mold") to no avail. One night he even shows up outside her bedroom window to woo her with an accordion serenade of Feelings...
...result is a life story in the classic mold. The idea that an artist's work can be approached through the events of his life is disparaged by some academic critics. Certainly one learns little about some artists -- Braque, for instance, or even Matisse -- from the tenor of their day-to-day lives. But with Picasso, who viewed his art as a diary, the life is the best key to the work. And the work is suffused with the man's traits: his extreme machismo, his predatory eye (the Andalusian mirada fuerte, or gaze of power, which, as Richardson rightly...