Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robertson talks about American mythology, about leaving home in Ronnie Hawkins' barbed-wire rock band and touring rural America, about going "down South, where the music and folklore had enormous impact on me." All those great early Band songs (The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Shape I'm In, Up on Cripple Creek) were Robertson's way of measuring and transmuting all that experience. The material on this record just deepens his traditional alchemy. "That's what I feel I do," he reflects. "I write American mythology. I'm the storyteller of the shadowland...
...Briton Hadden started TIME in 1923 on that theory, and it has animated our pages ever since. The first People section appeared in 1926. An accompanying Personality page flourished in the 1950s. Today our coverage of even the most impersonal trends, ideas and events teems with the people who shape them...
...married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies and milk shakes afterward at the PX. "Your sole purpose in life was to develop your equestrian skills," Schlanser recalls. "Yeah, they paid us to ride and stay in shape," says Colonel James Spurrier, president of the U.S. Horse Cavalry Association. He sounds wistful. A first lieutenant's pay was $125 a month, good money in those days. A pair of English boots cost $110, Polk remembers, but the shop "would wait six months before sending you a letter saying...
...patois -- a "two- cushioned" slot, with a job for her physiologist husband David. "We just had to do it," he says with a smile. So did Professor of Italian Aldo Scaglione, who left the University of North Carolina for a chair at New York University, the chance to shape an Italian studies center and -- a dollop of icing he requested -- an elegant apartment on Washington Square...
Looking for a way to trim a few pounds? How about the Laundromat? At a new establishment in Vista, Calif., called Clean & Lean, you can get your clothes and your body into shape. The Laundromat-fitness center features exercise bikes, jogging mats and twelve different weight machines along with its washers and dryers. The exercise circuit takes 25 minutes, just enough time to get through the spin cycle. At 75 cents a wash and $3.50 a workout, Owner Greg Trabert insists, business is "fantastic." And no wonder: customers have to come back soon to wash their exercise togs...