Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive moments seldom result any longer from the clash of arms and armies. They develop instead from painstaking negotiations and wordy debates, subject to all the vagaries and nuances of global and frequently local politics. So it is this week as two momentous shifts in the political shape of the world approach the point of decision. In London, ten years after Britain first applied to join the European Economic Community, the House of Commons votes on whether Britain should join the six-nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly decides whether the Peking government alone will represent...
...bulb. He was nearing his quarter-century by the time the Wright brothers lumbered into the air at Kitty Hawk. He was well known by the start of World War I and a celebrity when it ended. Since then, his reputation has increased exponentially, to the point where the shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without him. This week Picasso turned 90, and his birthday summoned a procession of tribute bearers. The Louvre has turned over its Grande Galerie to a selection of Picasso's work, the first time in its history that this honor has been extended...
...taxed Picasso's concentration to the limit, and the result was one of the few indisputably great portraits that he, or anyone else in this century, has produced: a densely sculptural image, hieratic and masklike, more compact almost than matter itself. Picasso's absorption of "primitive" shape (he had spent a lot of time with Iberian and Egyptian sculpture that year) was now complete, and the way to Cubism was open...
Oregonian Publisher Robert Notson, whose paper stands to lose at least $100,000 from the advertising boycott, declared: "I don't enjoy the loss of business, but I also don't enjoy the suggestion that an outside group can in effect shape our editorial policy." The paper conceded in an editorial note, however, that Royko's "generalizations" were "unwarranted, certainly in the Portland area...
...crew, with six girls returning from the eight that finished fifth at the Women's Nationals last spring, has been practicing regularly since the beginning of school, but Olmsted conceded that they were still out of shape...