Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate Mersault concludes - like that other overweening youth Stephen Dedalus - that he was not made for love but "for the innocent and terrible dark god he would henceforth serve. To lick his life like barley sugar, to shape it, sharpen it - that was his whole passion." Instead he dies rather romantically of tuberculosis...
...Fuller, Marcuse and Ronald Laing. The thrust of designers like Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso and the "Archizoom" group is not to decorate the psychic space around us but to extend and question it. This means a critical approach to social patterns, which starts with the language of shape...
...Hockney tackles the least promising of subjects in French Shop, 1971. The building is all facade; nothing stirs. It is hardly more than a doll's house with a sign on it. The vacancy is such that one needs time to notice the brilliant precision with which every shape is disposed on the canvas...
...world as it is and by his inability as an artist to change it. The healing Christian love, so strongly preached in the earlier writings, proved inadequate but remains as a rhetorical echo. The righteous, cleansing fire he summoned for "next time" is now only a vague and sinister "shape of the wrath to come." He talks of morality as a living thing, but he is crushed by the truth that the struggle for political freedom is decided by raw power...
...that, their maximum goal could be to seize Hué and the entire top third of the country and use them as a bargaining chip in any peace negotiations. If the battle for Hué occurs, it is universally agreed, it could prove to be crucial-to the shape of a settlement, if there is one, and to the future of Thieu and the Nixon policy in any case. Strategically, the fall of Hué would put Communist artillery within range of nearby Danang and its sprawling U.S. airbase. Psychologically, Hué's loss could lead to demoralization...