Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobel Prize, he and Dr. Harvey Itano have gone far to explain sickle-cell anemia, which is usually debilitating and may be fatal, and afflicts many U.S. Negroes and vast numbers in Africa. The disease got its name because the deoxygenated red cells in the veins lose their globular shape (they look normal in the arteries) and take a crescent or sickle form. The Pauling team found that this was because of a minute, submolecular abnormality in the hemoglobin...
...Necktie Is a Poem. The neckties-some of them are made of paint, while others are real ties painted over-are for Dine "remembered symbols that are important because they keep coming back. I used to write poems in the shape of neckties." All the paintings, whether of a shoe or hat or necktie, are labeled shoe or hat or necktie, because Dine likes to repeat his theme "over and over in your head like a textbook...
...houses of Paris put on display their latest notions of feminine architecture, it was clear that bosoms, knees, waists and hips were back. With that psychic unanimity that seems to animate the Paris fashion world, just about every big designer apparently had decided that the days of loose-fitting, shape-hiding dresses are gone...
...engineering honors for a bareback bikini that anybody can make at home with three or four pot holders and a long, thin necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels...
...article in the Jan. 13 issue of the New York World Telegram, Segal, who runs 12 miles a day to keep in shape, was described as a "tireless 24-year-old budding young playwright, who would rather win the Boston Marathon than write the next 'My Fair Lady.' Well almost...