Word: shapely
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...With his advent, a mass-media microcosm of Middle America took shape, and a new national hero ? or was it villain? ? was born. It was not long before more than 50 million people were tuning in to Archie's tirades each week, making "Family" the highest-rated series...
...corporate clients, such as Glaxo Wellcome or AT&T, a fat, balding middle-aged middle manager will approach him and say, "Even I wouldn't do that stuff." Erik calls it the Even I Syndrome. And he has to resist an impulse to say, "You're fat, out of shape and you smoke. Why would you even think of doing any of this stuff? Just because you can see?" Erik is not impatient or smug, but he tires of people assuming that sight will trump all other attributes and senses combined...
...musician, eventually recording with his second wife Mimi Baez Farina (Joan's younger sister), until his slender musical talent was taken for something real. Most of all, though, he wanted to be famous, to occupy a central place in the youth culture he could see taking shape around...
...corporate clients, such as Glaxo Wellcome or AT&T, a fat, balding middle-aged middle manager will approach him and say, "Even I wouldn't do that stuff." Erik calls it the Even I Syndrome. And he has to resist an impulse to say, "You're fat, out of shape and you smoke. Why would you even think of doing any of this stuff? Just because you can see?" Erik is not impatient or smug, but he tires of people assuming that sight will trump all other attributes and senses combined...
...LaBute is a hard worker: he prepared and directed The Shape of Things while editing his film Possession, based on the A.S. Byatt novel. "I needed a night job," he said at the opening. The new play is a night story, a cautionary tale to tell the naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially...