Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to four years, according to Cheng's story, the attic had been his home. The bumping noises had been Cheng skipping rope to keep in shape. By day he had slept on the stolen padding of a church pew. By night he had prowled the church grounds, filching food from the church kitchen...
...Lower East Side. His Polish immigrant parents prospered and moved uptown, but young Epstein, by choice, swam with the rats in the East River, peered wistfully under the swinging doors of Bowery saloons, grew up belligerent and ravenous for experience. He wanted a life with size and shape, and that was what he forged for himself...
Died. Alfred Kubin, 82, Austrian graphic artist in the great tradition of Diirer and Holbein, whose preoccupation with death and decay took shape in grotesque, pitiful figures trapped in a maze of twisted lines, mostly illustrations for books of authors particularly fascinating to him: Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoevsky, Strindberg; in Zwickledt, Austria...
Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...
...must still reckon with his tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over...