Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major effects. For one thing, it tends to shatter and dissolve the usual web of associations and habit patterns. A telephone, for instance, is suddenly nothing but a black plastic object of a certain shape-how outrageous and funny to see someone pick it up and talk to it as though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away (horror!); or that one is in such close rapport with others...
...SHAPE to Brussels. Thus far, Europe's East-West exchanges are more a faint patina than a deep-running break in postwar patterns and allegiances. But they are a part of the stirrings of nationalism and independence, a reflection of the willingness to re-examine the status quo that is inevitably having its effect on the twin military blocs facing off in Europe: NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries...
This week NATO's foreign ministers meet in Brussels to wrestle with the consequences of De Gaulle's withdrawal from the alliance's integrated military commands due July 1st. One consequence is that SHAPE, the command headquarters, must leave Paris. Most likely new home: Brussels. Another matter to be decided is the fate of some 27,000 French troops now stationed in West Germany under NATO. Both Bonn and Paris, for their own reasons, would like the French to stay. But if France is not in NATO, how can the troops' presence be justified? The Germans...
...consensus about politics is something else again. On that subject, the press corps only agrees that the job is both tough and important. "A good police reporter could cover a military action," says NBC's Ron Nessen, "but the big job here is to try to give shape and meaning to what's going on." The Chicago Daily News's knowledgeable veteran Keyes Beech is even more direct. "Any idiot can cover a war," says...
Minoru Yamasaki (TIME cover, Jan. 18, 1963), "should be an event, a fun thing." His new $32 million, 800-room Century Plaza Hotel, which opened last week in Los Angeles, is all of that and more. To begin with, there is the hotel's distinctive shape. To eliminate endless vistas down straight corridors, Yamasaki designed the hotel as a curved slab, 400 ft. long. In most new hotels, ballrooms, restaurants and shops are housed aboveground in a massive and ungainly block; Yamasaki placed them beneath notice, underground, along with a 1,000-car garage, so that the gracefully balconied...