Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HISTORIC COMPROMISE. We do not feel we are on the eve of entering the national government. We are not in a hurry. At this stage we believe it should take the shape of a constructive relationship in Parliament. We do not propose national elections at present. However, we ask all the democratic parties to respect the trend indicated by the vote...
...piled up at Pohang on the southeast coast, where 10,000 employees are producing steel or building plants for what will be the world's largest integrated steelworks. Farther south at Ulsan, the rocky coastline is broken by the giant hulls of 230,000-ton supertankers taking shape at ultramodern yards. South Korea's G.N.P., $17.2 billion, is about the same as Greece's, and per capita G.N.P. for its 33.5 million citizens is $513, v. $129 after the Korean...
...earn their breakfast, the 15,000 G.l.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division collectively run some 60,000 miles every morning-4 miles per man (including officers) in at least 32 minutes. The division has good reason for keeping its men in top shape: it defends a 500-sq.-mi. area bestriding the Uijongbu Corridor, traditional invasion route to Seoul and a mere 15 miles from...
Pepper's sculpture, though abstract, is not radically so. The strongest influence on her work has been the late David Smith. Just as Smith's work tended to keep the imprint of the human figure, vertical and gesturing, so the triangular shapes to which Pepper obsessively returns allude to architecture: pyramids and tents. The very shape of a pyramid comes drenched in an imagery of age, endurance, "primitive" solemnity. Being historical animals, we can no more see a pyramid as a perfectly abstract form than we can look at a cross without thinking of crucifixions...
...last week as he greeted leaders of the nation's power companies gathered in Denver for the annual meeting of the Edison Electric Institute. "So nice to see you," said he, "now that you are feeling better." The salutation drew grim laughter. Utilities are indeed in better financial shape than they were a year or so ago, but their situation is still not exactly healthy...