Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolls around in trash heaps trying to stay a couple feet ahead of the Bogevman. She's really cute, the best screamer since Fay Wray and in a class by herself as a whiner. Donald Pleasance is back too as the flip side of the Shape, a nubby, sexless, shapeless little fanatic, certainly a speed freak, killing innocent people in pursuit of his alter-ego. He gets offed too in the big La Traviata finale. They must have had a blast making this movie...
Calling the revision a "very considerable improvement," Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday it would remedy flaws in the current tutorial program, "History 97 had become shapeless and students were baffled as to what it was all about," he said, adding that most history tutors felt uncomfortable teaching a non-Western topic because they were unfamiliar with...
What is replacing it? Vigorous good health is still in fashion, and all may rejoice that we are not likely to see again soon what John Casablancas, head of Elite Model Management, calls "the asparagus look" ? white, limp and shapeless. Eileen Ford, the formidable housemother of the largest model agency in the world, the New York City-based Ford Models, Inc., regards the '60s in retrospect as "freaky" and the '70s as "slovenly," and sees progress now toward a strong, "classic" look...
...narrative is as colorful as she is pal lid. For a self-confessed dreamer with a tenuous hold on reality, she shows a keen sense of the here and now, and of the right words to record it. She notices "a big green couch so weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted out of 40 feet of water." She registers the sounds of dawn: "There were cries of birds, sharp and rudimentary, that stung like sparks or hail." And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled...
...talentless young reporter responding to a hard-boiled chief detective's "Gimme all you've got"; he has lots of facts and is obviously a tireless reporter, but it all just sits there. The Deliberate Stranger isn't a book; it's the murder file on Bundy, a shapeless compilation of everything Larson knows about Bundy, which isn't that much more than has already been printed in the papers many times. The mechanical narrative lacks all bite, which is both exasperating and immoral given the dramatic possibilities and the horror of the case. Larson has no human response...