Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rival structure to the HPC has been shakily taking shape in the last two months. It is called the Harvard Education Project and plans to make a sweeping study--perhaps taking as long as two years--to determine how closely Harvard approximates an ideal University and what should be changed here. Norr says that he first understood that the project would be "a temporary super-committee of the HPC," but it now seems more likely that those running the project, activists by disposition, will want to issue policy papers recommending reforms themselves...
...wanted to become a state trooper. But Johnson had two problems. One was his right ankle, shattered by a Viet Cong machine-gun slug in April 1966, when he was a sergeant with the 4th Marine Division. With regular exercise, he was able to get into good enough shape to pass the physical. His other problem was less easily solved. Johnson is a Negro, and there were no Negroes- Vietvets or otherwise-among West Virginia's 322 troopers...
...open. Silt is piling up in the canal so fast in the absence of dredging operations since June that five feet of navigable depth have already been lost. "If the canal stays closed another year," said an American engineer in Beirut last week, "it will be in such bad shape that they might as well turn it into an irrigation ditch and plant potatoes around it." Even the Egyptians seemed to be looking for alternatives: off to London last week went an official delegation to discuss construction of a 42-in. pipeline along the canal to carry 50 million tons...
...good lies in Leone's camera work-expertly combining color and composition, with sharp attention to the details of shape and texture that are available when shooting on location rather than on studio sets. Bad is the word for the wooden acting, and Leone's addiction to the cramped values and stretched probabilities of the comic strip. And ugly is his insatiable appetite for beatings, disembowelings and mutilations, complete with closeups of mashed-in faces and death-rattle sound effects...
...fact, line for line the same corrosive old Olympian who dominated The Last Angry Man. It is a pleasure to hear him roar at the world again, even if the neighborhood has gone downhill and even if he knocks Green's memoir slightly out of shape...