Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins to sob, and a woman standing near him explains, "It's a very emotional thing for us." A coal miner says, "Before it was terrible because the 'momios' [the rich, the big landowners] ran things and threw us out when they were angry. Now we are in good shape. We work for ourselves and so for Chile." Their words are not forced--they come from the heart...
Bell's answer: Big antitrust cases "involve the basic restructuring of American industry and the shape of the American economy. These are questions that are perhaps more appropriately answered by the legislature, and not by the courts...
Small, image-enhancing fibs like that are a habit of the profession whose code she helped to shape, and let there be no doubt about what that profession was. It was stardom. This is not to say that she was not, on occasion, an effective actress. It is to suggest that acting - like shading her age or flattering her fan clubs with personal attention or fighting the studio bosses for strong roles or making sure her eyebrows were properly plucked - was part of the larger job of being a star...
...While Shakespeare doesn't wrangle over issues as pragmatic as pregnancy in this play, you wonder if he didn't have more on his mind than Julia's male disguise when he put these words in her mouth: "It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,/Women to change their shape than men their minds...
Cubans like Americans-the people, as opposed to the government, a traditional socialist distinction. But Americans are especially bienvenidos now: Cuba's economy is in wretched shape. The major cause is the plunge in the world price of sugar, Cuba's chief export, from more than 50? per Ib. in late 1974 to just 7? today. The Russians are now spending nearly $4 million a day to keep Castro's economy sputtering along; that does not include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs...