Word: shapes
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What did he find there? Basically confirmation, in the real world, of the shape of his own temperament. The leader of the Romantic movement in French painting, Delacroix was both fervid and exceptionally contained. He adored energy -- the fury of stallions rearing and biting one another in a stable, ignoring the efforts of their Arab grooms; the flash in a fighter's eye; the tensed muscles of a lion. He drank color: sonorous reds and browns, flashes of green, veils of cold blue -- a palette he had learned from Rubens. But at the same time he knew, as his idols...
...bring the best teams to Cambridge right now and see how we shape up with them," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "We can beat anybody at home...
...others just filled fat order books after they ran out on the first day. This brassiere from Sara Lee Foundations was an instant sensation, especially with rapidly aging baby boomers, when it appeared in department stores. A moderately priced push-up model, with several strategically placed pads to enhance shape, the Wonderbra is credited with working miracles: creating drop-dead cleavage even while defying gravity...
...Bill Richardson, who's serving as a U.S. envoy to Pyongyang. Though North Korea has said only that Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall would be sent home "very soon" after being detained during a probe of the incident. Richardson, Democrat from New Mexico, said Hall was "in good shape and I think he'll be home before Christmas." Earlier Thursday, Richardson accompanied the casket carrying the body of the pilot killed in the incident, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, as the North Koreans handed it over at the border crossing in the village of Panmunjom...
...Citron, he remained at home and out of sight after surrendering his $100,000-a-year job and declaring that "what I did was not irresponsible in any manner, shape or form." When Citron's investment strategy came under attack earlier this year, Bert Scott, who heads the Orange County General Services Agency, said, "It's like he walked down the street, and someone just stepped in front of him and punched him in the stomach. This has taken him totally by surprise." Even more surprising, perhaps, has been the revelation that this shy, bespectacled public servant had this kind...