Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart attack, the most highly publicized coronary occlusion in history, is usually cited as the trigger of this national impulse to perspire for the sake of health. Eisenhower's heart specialist, Paul Dudley White, seized his moment of national prominence to lecture the public repeatedly on its deplorable shape, suggesting that the tone of the body has much to do with the pace of the mind. "The better the legs," said White, still bicycling today at 81, "the clearer the brain." There is little doubt that some triggering was necessary. For the first time in history, a society found...
American women shape up no better, beneath their facade...
...finished paintings often struck viewers as painfully clumsy. His por traits looked like pillows pounded into more or less human shape. His great slabs of beef (inspired by Rembrandt) were hideously bloodsplattered. His landscapes were wildly out of perspective. Yet today, a quarter of a century after his death (at the age of 50 in Paris), Soutine no longer seems an ec centric maverick; instead he has be come a mainstream figure in 20th cen art. The shift in judgment has been largely caused by the emergence of the New York school of abstract expressionism, whose leaders built with...
...these are facts of life that Ken ignores," says M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson, a former Kennedy adviser whose economics texts are used on more college campuses than any others. "The book makes modern corporations into kings who rule unilaterally. They don't. They're constitutional monarchs; they try to shape the market, but they can't make the market react." Nor do TV's insistent pitches always succeed in artificially stimulating demand?as manufacturers of detergents, breakfast cereals and the Edsel ruefully concede...
...double chin, swathes his 197 Ibs. in skin-tight polo shirts and stretch pants, and dresses down his wavy locks with hair spray. He gets 3,000 fan letters a week, travels 60,000 miles a year promoting barbells and beauty creams. While on the road, he keeps in shape by chugging up and down hotel fire escapes...