Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatre is of circular shape. It has a tilted, inflated, lens-shaped nylon roof 145 feet in diameter. The stage is flexible enough to accomodate either proscenium productions or three-quarters-arena shows. The seating capacity is approximately...
...Finally heeding his doctors' pleas, the Governor raced down to New Orleans for a checkup, startled a crowd of onlookers by relieving himself on the carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...
France. Its finances back in shape, its economy is healthier than it has been in three decades; its public-with only scattered misgivings-is content to accept the side effects of firm rule in gratitude for tranquillity. The result is an ally acting more prickly in its pride, but stronger...
...almost 50 remaining years of his life, Handel (who became an English subject) turned out 39 Italianate operas, which shaped English operatic style for a generation, and almost singlehanded gave a new, dramatic shape to oratorio style. A shrewd businessman, he combed Italy for singers, scored such a success with famed Soprano Francesca Cuzzoni -described by one listener as having "a nest of nightingales in her belly"-that she sold out a benefit performance of his Ottone at a top of ?50 a seat...
Died. George Reeves, 45, TV's bullet-defying Superman; by his own hand (gunshot); in Beverly Hills, Calif. Though in private life Reeves resembled prissy Clark Kent more than Superman, he gloried in the role, kept in shape with bar bells beside his bed, but when Superman turned into reruns (1957) he was too closely identified with his extrahuman role to get a normal, worldly...