Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milky Way, curve around clusters of galaxies that lie some 3 billion light- years* from earth. Astronomers Vahe Petrosian of Stanford University and Roger Lynds of Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, who discovered the arcs, believe each consists of some 100 billion stars but cannot explain the shape. "What gives us a headache," says Petrosian, "is that they are so, so perfect...
Another possibility is that the arcs were once galaxies but were somehow stretched out of shape by the gravitational pull of other galaxies. Yet gravity strong enough to distort a galaxy would be unlikely to leave behind anything as well organized as the observed arcs. A third explanation -- that the arcs condensed from...
...more than mere hypocrisy is at work here. There is a logic problem. For decades Hollywood has flooded the market with every conceivable variety of junk and then defended itself against the charge of degrading public tastes with a "Who, us? We just give them what they want." Tastes shape the market...
...course, the premise of the anticolorizing purists is correct. Even if you don't watch junk, the sheer weight of mass-produced junk, in the end, flattens and debases the culture and leaves you poorer. The market does shape demand. In a mass culture of such power, the very presence of junk corrupts, like secondhand smoke...
...real sense that she is an instrument of God's will prompts friends and relatives to refer to her career, again and again, as a "mission." Says her mother-in-law and confidante, Dona Aurora Aquino: "I think this is a mission for her, to put her country in shape. Then she can retire. Ninoy's assassination was his fate. The presidency is hers." Cory often says the same thing...