Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even drops into the repair waiting room, applying his sunny personality and speeding up someone who has an appointment with the dentist. Says Moran: "There's a million things that nobody asks about but me." Moran, who neither smokes nor drinks, keeps in top shape by leaving the office every day at 2 p.m. for a half-hour. 44-lap swim at the Illinois Athletic Club...
...Bensley of Los Angeles' Bruin Motor Co., "service in most places is lousy." Bensley -who is known for good service-and other dealers blame the factory, complain that Detroit inspects only one in ten cars, sends dealers cars that take two or three days to get into shape, gives them an insufficient allowance to do the job. "The dealer just can't do it in a volume business," says Bensley. "He has to push out cars as fast as he can. The customer finds all kinds of things wrong with the car, and tries to get them fixed...
...Chop. Laos lies, by historical accident, in the shape of a lean lamb chop among six quarreling neighbors. To the Communist countries beyond the mists and granite-blue mountains to the north, Laos in anarchy provides the vital corridor through which to fuel an incessant guerrilla warfare against South Viet...
...theatrics - though the production seems often needlessly stagy; it is equally that the edges have half obscured the center. For the colorful secondary characters to keep their full size, the chief ones - the monsignor and Nerone - must dwindle; indeed the meant-to-be Christlike Nerone never really takes shape...
...Dated Paintings. When fake De Chiricos, done in his easily imitated earlier "metaphysical" style, began to flood the art market, the canny, cantankerous artist began to see the shape of things to come. Encouraged by friends, he painted early De Chiricos himself, even predating some of them until he was threatened with legal action. Between the phony forgers and the "genuine" forger, who to this day can turn out 20 paintings a month, confusion reigned...