Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cafe? "I need to let some air into Lake Wobegon," said Keillor. "That's one of the reasons for leaving the show." But, he says,"I owe a movie script to Sydney Pollack." The story will be set in Lake Wobegon, some decades in the past. Keillor knows the shape of the story he will do for Pollack, who directed Tootsie and Out of Africa: "There will be a wedding, and a funeral; that's clear...
...April, when they broke away from what used to be the main opposition faction, the New Korea Democrats, to form the Reunification Party. At issue was a power struggle with Lee Min Woo, a leader of the older party, who was willing to compromise with the government on the shape of national elections in exchange for concessions that included greater press freedom and the release of political prisoners. The Kims' walkout left Lee's New Korea Democrats with a greatly reduced bloc of 22 seats in the 276-seat National Assembly, compared with 69 seats for the Reunification Democrats...
...into your house, you may as well start packing to move now." Hong Kong's Exchange Square building has managed to remain on its site -- with a few strategic revisions. During his survey, Feng Shui Master Chung Ying-Mei decreed that the structure's base must form a U shape, which he claimed was much more receptive to the good fortune emanating from the bay. Architect Remo Riva complied. Says Riva: "He said we should also put up an antenna to channel feng shui waves into the building. Barring that, he suggested we put a hole in the roof...
...final decision on the Monitor will have to await complete analysis of the drone's findings, but there may not be much time. Says Project Archaeologist Barto Arnold: "The wreck is in very bad shape; artifacts are spilling out and being washed away by the current." No more artifacts of the ship will be raised until tricky questions of recovery, restoration and eventual display are worked out. Says Miller: "We have learned with other shipwrecks that premature recovery leads to certain destruction...
Washington is not the only capital where health officials and politicians have been struggling to shape a policy to fight AIDS. So far, 51,535 AIDS cases have been reported to the Geneva-based World Health Organization by 112 countries, not including some hard-hit African countries. As many as 10 million people are believed to be AIDS carriers, and according to some estimates, 100 million could have the virus by the end of the century. Many governments, mostly in Western Europe, have responded far more swiftly and decisively than the U.S. to the deadly challenge by developing public education...