Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. By now it is only fair to hail Harris as an acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave their fur coats outside the music...
Spassky also harbored some surprises. Though often pictured as the witty, urbane sportsman going against the Brooklyn brat, Boris was himself a spoiled chess darling. Depressed, out of shape, drinking too much and beset with marital problems in the months before the match, he was "less interested in winning the title," says Darrach, "than in pulling himself out of the worst emotional hole he had ever been...
Brassai's sensitivity to the character of a subject or situation is matched by an acute eye for form, for the subtle variations of light and dark and shape against background that make his pictures such beautiful formal structures, as well as compelling documents...
Tommy is dedicated to football, and keeps himself in shape in the off-season by playing basketball and squash regularly...
Reed spares precious few of his brothers and sisters. (He even offers a veiled suggestion that Angela Davis is the modern equivalent of the stern black mama figure trying to shape up her offspring in the absence of a father.) A minister named the Rev. Rookie is replaced by a Moog synthesizer; Maxwell Kasa-vubu, a button-down black literary critic, hallucinates that he is Richard Wright's illiterate murderer Bigger Thomas. Reed even brings back those veteran moochers from Amos 'n' Andy, the Kingfish and Andrew H. Brown, now trying to cash in on the street...