Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The computer then uses this information to construct an image. Simple geometrical shapes are relatively easy to create, but the process is far more difficult for complicated figures. The stained-glass man, for instance, took four people some four months to create...
When six-year-old Ellis Clark hears the whine of a jet and spots the stubby shape of a 737 overhead, he brags to his playmates, "My dad makes those!" So do many other dads in Seattle, where Boeing, the world's most successful aircraft company, has its home. And those workers share the pride that their children feel. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-airplane division: "Out of 100,000 Boeing employees, there's not one who doesn't get goose bumps when he sees a 747 in the air. This isn't like making toothpaste...
From the start, the genre has taken shape and tone from the demands of its audience. The American male likes to believe that he is reading it like it is, and the novel of the modern knight-errant is very much a male genre. It operates on the rigid belief that the world is rotten; to think otherwise is dangerous and unmanly. A corollary view is that the deck is stacked against the decent little guy or distressed damsel. The evidence often seems overwhelming. The shattering aftereffects of World War I, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the disillusionment...
...surprisingly rapid sequence, events are converging to stimulate the dialogue and potentially shape the U.S. space program well into the next century...
Coeducation may exacerbate a woman's vulnerability to eating problems, experts say. This is in part because women have been socialized to believe that their attractiveness, particularly to potential male partners, is solely a function of body shape...