Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the beginning of our relationship was that it was always full of surprises," Brian said. "Probably one of the most romantic things that has happened is Valentine's Day our freshman year. I spent the whole day in the basement of Mower baking Jeanne this cake in the shape of a heart. I had planned to let Jeanne find it in my fridge after the Kroks concert, but she told me early that evening that she didn't feel like eating. I kept suggesting though, that we go back to my room. I thought for sure that...
Though he seems every inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred...
Your article "Beyond The Gender Myths" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 19] quotes an educator who imagines that a Utopia can be created in which "sexual stereotypes don't shape education." This assumes that gender influences on parents, teachers, peer groups, media and writers about the subject of education have disappeared and that academic skills and interests are now present in pristine condition. As everyone knows, we have not yet reached this state. Single-sex education works because it gives girls a few valuable years in which to recover confidence and feel that they can make a difference in a culture that...
...their seats with its stark contrast in mood. The seven dancers, each representing a historical Indian figure, writhed and twisted across the stage to a silent rhythm maintained only by the stomping of feet and the slapping of palms. The backdrop was illuminated by sprays of colored light, shifting shape and texture with each transition in the choreography. The audience was overwhelmed by the sheer strength of movement and the intensity of the combinations, both enhanced by the prowess of the Conservatory dancers. Each solo was marked by particular nuances: expansive arm movements, sweeping lunges, and rhythmic patterns of stomping...
...uniform of the soul, new and intricate and ever changing, which [she] could put on each morning without thinking or choosing, which [she] could wear all day and even at night and revel in the pleasure of the fabric against [her] skin, the swirl of the skirts, the elegant shape." These rare and vivid images are beautiful and show Schine's strength as a poetic writer...