Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starts early in the morning in Hopkinton when runners of every shape, size, sex and mentality show up for the pre-race rituals--stretching, taping, slathering on the atomic balm, and (hopefully) unloading part of the carbohydrate feast of the night before. Warning for you prospective runners; the lines start forming for the john...
...from the true God--who is not part of Creation at all, but an alien being to whom men with true knowledge, or gnosis, seek to return. The doctrines make provocative theology and a fascinating attack on the Gospels, but Bloom can't find enough concrete material there to shape into a good fantasy novel. Instead of focusing on a few key symbols and investing them with emotion, he throws them together and mixes them up, like a Chinese chef tossing ingredients into a wok. Bloom allots most of his characters at least one dream in each chapter, filled with...
...White House gave high marks to Harold Denton, the NRC official who finally pulled things into shape at the reactor, and to Pennsylvania's new Republican Governor, Richard Thornburgh. "We found him to be extraordinarily competent, calm and sensible," said a Carter aide. "We never worried that he would get carried away." Said Thornburgh: "I told the President we are tough people and that we'll handle...
Playwright Luis Valdez has tried to shape this tale as a mixture of myth, documentation and fantasy, but he never gets past the ABCs in any category. Edward James Olmos is electrifying as the embodiment of the mythic hero known as El Pachuco, but the script short-circuits him, and he is reduced to cynic snarls and stylized struts. Daniel Valdez is winning as a gang leader with unstained valor. He is stalemated in a TV-style love triangle between his loyal Chicano girlfriend (Rose Portillo) and a Jewish minority-rights defender (Karen Hensel) of inflammable zeal...
...founding fathers knew what a President should look like, they kept it to themselves. A President, says the Constitution, need only be a native-born resident and old enough (35) to be dry behind the ears. The law is mute on the shape and size of those ears and other elements of physiognomy, stature and hirsuteness that go into the chimerical mix of looks...