Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite some missteps, the Dukakis campaign seemed to be awakening from its stupor. Some polls show him pulling even or slightly ahead once again. With the return of Sasso, a course of action for Dukakis' fall campaign is belatedly taking shape...
AFTER three-and-a-half years of controversy, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett yesterday left his Cabinet post in much different shape than he found it. You could almost hear university professors all over the country release sighs of relief at the news...
...mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...this family time? Pick your theory. Baby boomers are just now having families, and pollsters shape the candidates to fit the demographics. Or, in times of peace, political talk, like everything else, returns to domesticity, and there is nothing as domestic as family...
Once, wars were called off for the Olympic Games, but lately the Games have been lopped off for wars. Like a wreath bent out of shape by an ocean wave, one Olympic ring at a time, representing a continent or so, has dislodged itself in a snit and drifted away. The race was still won in 1976, but the Africans weren't in Montreal. The basket was still scored in 1980, but the Americans weren't in Moscow. The weights were still lifted and the punches still landed, but in 1984 the Soviets and Cubans weren't in Los Angeles...