Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their Independent Republican allies will win-or come very close to winning-the working majority that De Gaulle so dearly desires. But in a few short, tumultuous weeks, most of the accepted premises of the Fifth Republic have been swept away, and no one can be sure what shape France may take by vote or violence...
...business, complains: "There is very little a designer can do with a bikini. It's like plucking an eyebrow." He now concentrates on one-piece suits with wide belts to draw attention to waist and bust. "A belt," he explains, "is like a hatband. Without it, the true shape is lost...
...shift designed to reduce his influence. In the newly created post of party general manager, Brandt installed a trusted helper, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 45. Now the minister for aid to developing countries, he will take over from Wehner the responsibility for getting the party into shape for next year's national elections. The appointment also meant that the Social Democrats, who under Wehner's influence have played down their differences with the Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition, now intend to play them up in order to impress voters with what they are doing in Bonn...
Nudes also interest Abstractionist Jules Olitski but mainly as an excuse to keep his draftsmanship in shape. Ever so often, a nude model poses for him while he, Critic Clement Greenberg and a couple of friends sketch from life. When Olitski settles down to serious painting, he turns out tinted canvases whose miragelike effects derive from the absence, indeed the positive negation, of the penciled line in any shape or form (see opposite...
...flew it to two women's world speed records." When she made the winning bid of $4,300 for her old plane, which had been in Mantz's collection, the crowd stood and applauded. Pancho Barnes, for her part, guaranteed to have her old ship back in shape and flying soon. "I've got a lot of friends out at Edwards Air Force Base," she said. "I'm sure they'll give me a hand...