Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political views--his convictions about the treachery and duplicity of the Communist--helped shape his philosophy of handicapping. He believed in the conspiracy they of horse racing. He viewed all horses as looks manipulated by their trainers...
...coaches have helped get us in shape," Whiting said, "and they've taught us some good solid rugby techniques through vigorous drills...
...environment. He soon had his own room in a light show in the Paris Museum of Modern Art, where he could be found drinking wine and talking with visitors on nights when the museum was open late. By then Muller's ideas had begun taking on a new shape; he wanted different materials on which to project his light designs. So he began concentrating on inflatables, which are light, easy to work with, movable and cheap. Now they have taken over his life. Says Müller: "The inflatable for me is something magic-like the light, the sound...
...floor space, the ceiling rises nearly 16 ft. at its apex, and the entire structure is held up by a constant flow of air pumped through a plastic umbilical cord by a small electric motor outside. Shadows from trees and clouds dance across the walls and roof, changing shape as the afternoon sun dips toward the horizon. When Müller tires of the shifting shadows, he projects pictures of mountains, oceans and forests on the walls. In warm weather he pipes water to the roof, where it forms an enlarging puddle that depresses the vinyl and creates a natural...
...part, Orwell's durability is due to his central obsession. It was not politics or personalities that concerned him so much as language itself. In the '30s he saw words bent; in the '40s he chronicled the result: whole governments twisted out of shape. His best work was an attempt to restore the meaning to words, to prove that "good prose is like a window pane." "One ought to recognize," he wrote, "that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting...