Word: shapelessness
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...major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if roasted overnight; Henry Moore punched holes through their stomachs. The products were monumental, surrealistic, but withal still related to the human figure. Somebody was bound to get tired of doing...
...Shot of Lemon Squash. Even more far-reaching-though more subtle-is the social revolution overtaking Saudi Arabia. Many Saudi women now sport lipstick, eye shadow and slacks under their shapeless black shrouds and dark veils. Their daughters are going to school for the first time. Any student -male or female-who can win admission to a foreign university receives full expenses and a generous living allowance. Of his own eight sons, Feisal has sent the youngest seven abroad for schooling, including his bright, second oldest son Prince Mohamed bin Feisal, 29, the country's first royal prince ever...
President Conant made the Nieman program virtually shapeless to encourage independent scholarship. Fellows are required only to take one half-course. Under the direction of Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships from the program's second year until 1964, this shapelessness became purposelessness...
...federal republic's tidily tended forests. Side by side, Mercedes and motor bike repose in the parking lot; for a few brief hours, worker and industrialist, Cabinet minister and cabinetmaker are equal and often indistinguishable-clad (as are their wives) in sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell of tiefatmen (deep breathing), to say hello to the Müllers (walking in the other direction), or to let Papa train his binoculars on an interesting bird, until...
Norell's gowns are more than short; they're shapeless. One after another, his models whirled around in shifts that barely exposed a single curve between neck bone and kneecap. Still, the dresses looked classically elegant. Some were pastel-colored, with a wide band of bugle beads on cuffs and hems; others were made entirely of beads in gay, candy-colored stripes. "Long gowns are old-fashioned," he explained. "Why should women wear skirts above the knees in daytime and sweep the floors at night...