Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolt in the armed forces began to take shape as long ago as 1977, when a power struggle within the Marcos government eroded the influence of the President's longtime political ally Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. "It began as a self-defense action," recalls Navy Captain Rex Robles, a spokesman for the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, which Enrile now confirms he clandestinely helped establish. Realizing that he was being pushed aside in a power struggle with General Ver, Enrile, a Harvard-trained lawyer, began to work secretly to protect himself and lay the groundwork for the inevitable post...
Even toned down, the 23-page Packard commission report is in spots bluntly critical of the way the Pentagon and Congress shape defense budgets. "There is no rational system," the report states, for reaching "coherent and enduring agreement on national military strategy." With some exceptions, "weapons systems take too long and cost too much to produce." Fraud and dishonesty are not principally to blame, says the report; rather, "the truly costly problems are those of overcomplicated organization and rigid procedure...
...This album is its chart, and though there are beautiful songs here, there is no smooth sailing. Each of the eight tunes on Lives in the Balance is about restlessness, rootlessness and desperation, and in one way or another, they are all political. Even the love song In the Shape of a Heart--one of Browne's most beautiful ballads--seems to balance off the weight of a lost affair against the kind of specific moral gravity that can come only from some deeper social commitment. Soldier of Plenty and the title track make glancing observations ("People...
Toad reflected. What he saw on the penciled page was himself, all right, not just the content of the words but the physical shape and flow of thought. Some writers do not like to see so much of themselves on the page and prefer to objectify the words through a writing machine. Toad for a moment accused himself of sentimentalizing handwriting, as if it were home-baked bread or hand-cranked ice cream. He accused himself of erecting a cathedral of enthusiasm around his handicap...
Toad, liberated, bounded off in the other direction. Light of heart, he took to the open road, encumbered by nothing heavier than a notebook and a pen. Pausing on a hilltop now and then, he wrote long letters to Ratty and Mole, and folded them into the shape of paper airplanes, and sent them sailing off on the breeze...