Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Producer-Director Richard Quine and his scenarists shape the story as an obtuse triangle inclined toward a pert reformed prostitute (Stella Stevens), just the sort of girl to make two able-bodied ex-convicts (Chuck Connors and Alex Cord) change their habits. The dialogue is more square than daring...
Scott, the tall and ubiquitous righthander, will probably start against B.C. McCandlish pitched against Army, but Coach Norm Shepard may use him in relief either today or against Tufts tomorrow just to keep him in shape. Larry Melfa, who shut out M.I.T. 11-0 last week, is a good bet to start in the Tufts game...
...illegible manuscripts. Then, by chance, the missing pages of the movement were discovered in an old trunk, and musicologists set about the laborious task of deciphering Ives's penciled scrawlings. The polyphonic thickets were so incredibly dense that it took ten years to work the movement into playable shape...
Split Bricks. The remarkable thing is that Elvis the private human being has not been terribly touched by it all. He still calls elders of a year or more by their surnames, keeps in top physical shape with touch-football games, holds a black belt in karate (earned during his stint in the service), and can split a brick or a stacked pair of two-by-four boards with his right hand (which, as a result, is slightly deformed...
Near the Colton airport, which he operates, Maxwell and two contractor partners dug a 17-acre lake in the shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted...