Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large tiles: yellow, viridian, mauve-flecked with rose madder. The floor is all sea-green and turquoise speckles, but it's hard to say exactly what color any patch of the gelatinous mosaic is because each is so modified by contrasting touches within its small boundaries. The biggest shape in this aquarium light rises diagonally across the picture: a bath, like an immense open oyster, in which floats the body of a woman, all legs, shining indistinctly in the water. She seems in a trance--her face can't be read as a face but more as a spongy clump...
...lead role in bailing out troubled economies. But it prefers not to foot the enormous bill alone or impose diktats from Washington. Many of the suggestions the IMF makes to borrowers, often in close consultation with the Treasury, are sound. But few of the nations are in any shape to digest, implement and enforce the Wizard of Oz transformations the institution wants. The fund needs to abandon its attempt to enforce deep structural reforms and focus instead on resuscitating these economies, particularly by helping them pay off their crippling short-term debt and managing their sliding currencies...
There kids absorb the values of peers and find a niche in the local ecology. They become known as tough or nice or wacky or wicked, and personality starts to harden. Granted, parents can shape behavior within the home. But in the wider world, Harris argues, the child is a different person, and there lie the roots of the budding adult...
...three films this year. In The Wedding Singer, left, Christine Taylor gets frustrated by the box and chucks it. But in There's Something About Mary and Armageddon, Mary's slow-witted brother and the unpolished Rockhound show their brain power by swiftly twisting the maddening thing into shape...
...battle to shore up dikes, save lives and repair the damage, creating scenes reminiscent of the idealistic propaganda images of the 1950s. The floods remind the Chinese that even in an everyone-for-themselves market economy they share a common destiny; a destiny which they are able to shape by acting as a community...