Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folds of calcified gauze, their skin roughened with residual abstract-expressionist drips and clots. It hardly matters that the stooped Gerontion in Segal's Hot Dog Stand, 1978, is a cast of the sprightly museum director Martin Friedman; what does count is the peculiar tension between his dark shape and the bright white figure of the waitress, under the glare of the lit mock-Mondrian ceiling...
...SHAPE UP OR SHIP...
...withdraw from the stalled negotiations for "autonomy" of the occupied West Bank and Gaza if the U.S. presses too hard for a rapprochement with the P.L.O. that set off the Israelis this time seemed to be an intricate power play orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the P.L.O. The shape of this three-pronged diplomatic maneuver launched earlier this summer had become apparent only a short time earlier: 1) The Saudis had raised their oil production by 1 million barrels a day in early July on a three-month basis, thereby easing the shortage that had led to gas lines...
...concern for rights of the minority, no matter how unpopular," says Hill, 64. "Concern for religious and political freedom, human rights, just the right to practice a profession and get an education were things that were denied to my forebears." His roots have clearly helped to shape his judicial philosophy: "Whenever you can vindicate the individual against the government, consistent with your judicial obligation...
...Cultures, and Sciences--that would contain a number of precisely-defined courses designed to teach specific "modes of thought." This year, Rosovsky and other faculty members set about drawing up these courses--with the help of a few token students forbidden to talk to their peers about the shape of the Core. When the courses were unveiled this spring, many students wondered again what the fuss was all about. At first glance, the courses seemed as diffuse and specialized as Ged Ed. This fall, however, will tell if the guidelines for teaching "modes of thought" so exhaustively debated...