Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
...Clausewitz' formula for successful military attack, they concentrated all the forces they could muster on the smallest possible problem: to express what they happened to be feeling in the process of painting. The results were huge canvases excitedly smeared, spattered, daubed, dribbled and gobbed with color in the shape of freewheeling overall designs, as if the artists had been playing with paints and got carried away. They were not as formless and unconsidered as the quick glance suggests, however, and they aimed for styles coherent at least to the stylists...
...once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever." The true selves of these complex people have been twisted into and out of shape by life. Edmund thinks Jamie is mad when Jamie says, "The dead part of me hopes you won't get well." He adds that maybe their father is glad that dope "has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn't want to be the only corpse around...
...between the team selections in June and the actual Olympic games in November. Macdonald suggests that, immediately following the trials, "the Olympic coaches should get the whole works together and set up a training camp in Florida or California. Otherwise, those selected might very easily get out of shape during the summer," he said...
...name as a teacher, opened his own art school in Manhattan in 1934. Five years later he produced Red Trickle, which Dealer Sam Kootz calls the first application of the drip technique to painting. His art and thought have done as much as any man's to shape today's abstract expressionism, though never did an elderly, experienced and serious-minded teacher manage to seem so untaught...