Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's nomination was in even better shape Thursday than when it began the day before, as a new spirit of cooperation pervaded the White House and Congress after two earlier nominees failed...
...more involved in [cross-country] because we would run at the beginning of soccer, getting in shape, and I kind of liked it," Grialou says...
Another point of possible weakness is Jackson'slack of experience in elective political office.But the candidate has downplayed the issue, andsaid at Harvard earlier this month, "I bring thecapacity to shape concensus and articulate policy.A leader must project the vision for the nationand have the power to act in times of crisis...
...this point it is clear how much, subliminally or not, Giacometti has meant to Rothenberg. This probing for form through a web, a mist of approximate lines, so that the never-quite-final shape becomes a palimpsest of recorded attempts to fix it, echoes Giacometti's own anxiety before his subjects. How can the artist be sure, and make you sure, what is there? For Rothenberg the problem becomes worse, because she chooses subjects in movement, the opposite of Giacometti's hieratic stillness. It does not always come off, but when it does you are made sharply aware...
...prepared at least to make the deathbed that a genial torturer can lie in. But Rafi gets no more or less sympathy than any other character in this exuberant egalitarian stew of a movie. Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts and madmen dancing in the carnage or singing a Motown melody as all the survivors copulate on Armageddon...