Word: mold
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...come to dominate and define a genre - men like Hitchcock, Welles, Hawks and Ford. But what of the filmmaker who didn't try to stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment - even a work in progress - and mold it to perfection? In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow argues that Fleming - who directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind - was such a man, denied his rightful place in the cinematic pantheon...
...hotels don't have that option. You can close wings, or certain floors, Hansen points out, "but the problem is, in markets like Miami" - which just saw the re-opening of the 1,504 room Fontainebleau in November - "you can't shut down air conditioning because you'll have mold and mildew...
...from the mold of a 1970s post-Watergate maverick politician, Quinn has long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed...
Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod ’10 hardly fit the mold of typical campus politicians...
...threatened by an inundation of modern wares from abroad, the pots and their uses have not changed. “Form always came from function,” Hoy said. She recounted that whenever she would attempt a new shape, her teacher would come over and mold it into a traditional one.“I think that part of it was that there’s a strength in these shapes that can stand up to a fire, stand up to a smoldering bed of embers,” Hoy said. Hoy found a similar strength in her teachers...