Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus he can shape a whole evening about Evita Peron that ducks the moral dimensions of fascism and can adapt poems by T.S. Eliot without tackling any metaphysical notion more complicated than an escalator ride into the clouds. No celestial choirs appear to sing in Lloyd Webber's ears, no muse or demon seems to haunt him, and his concoctions cannot bear close logical inspection. But he can beguile even sophisticated viewers into believing for the moment that they are witnessing highflying...
...demanding, in Gore's words, "a one-time panel to recommend a uniform set of criteria." The P.M.R.C. has backed off from its earlier insistence on specific ratings, such as V for violence, X for explicit lyrics and O for occult. "We do not want censorship in any shape or form," Gore insists. Comments Baker: "The issue affects my family. I really believe that the escalation of violence and sexuality is a form of child abuse...
...University's mild moral tone has taken the shape of Harvard as mediator, attempting to get companies with South African investments to enforce the Sullivan principles...
...called rhinoviruses has remained obscure. Last week teams of scientists from Purdue and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, reported in the journal Nature that they had mapped in exquisite atomic detail the structure of a human cold virus called HRV14. Their achievement marked the first time that the shape of an animal virus had been so precisely determined, and raised hopes that a cure for the common cold might be possible after...
...fathoming the shape of HRV14, the Purdue and Wisconsin teams depended heavily on high technology. Using X rays produced by Cornell University's High Energy Synchrotron Source, they passed a beam through crystallized samples of the virus. Data derived from the interactions between the X rays and the viral atomic structure were then fed into Purdue's Cyber 205 supercomputer, which enabled the researchers to produce a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus. In fact, the supercomputer was the hero of the project. "The final set of calculations were made in a month," says Michael Rossmann, who headed...