Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost three key players last week--Hogan, Goetz and Driscoll--and just got them back this weekend, even though they're not quilte fully ready. As soon as we're in solid physical shape, we'll be fine...
...long did it take negotiators to agree on the shape of a table for the Paris peace talks...
Nevertheless, the language that reflected and helped shape American attitudes towards the government's enemies was still in the newspapers last week. As they had throughout the war, the newsmagazines led the way, with reporting whose bias verged on the ridiculous. To Time magazine, the Saigon government's abandonment of half its country was "a gritty gamble," a "historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map" to be celebrated with an in-depth look at the government's head: "As both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion...
...often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time, like Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra, obdurately resisted this trend, and we now seem to have got back to the point where we can look at a massive heavy shape without thinking it backward and funky, or parroting the once obligatory cliches about Stonehenge. An exhibition very much to the point opened this month at the Sculpture Now Gallery in Manhattan's Soho: some 30 tons of granite and steel by James Buchman, 26, a Memphis-born sculptor who lives...
Though the Crimson defeated Washington by six seconds last June. Brooks said. "We're pretty apprehensive. Washington will be ahead of us shape-wise and our biggest threat. If anyone ever taught them how to row, they'd be dangerous...