Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After four days the drama has begun to take shape, but Bergman is far from satisfied. "We need more emotion. I'm getting full resistance," he complains. In one scene, Emck must scream obscenities at Frank. "Sounds too ladylike," the director mutters; then, to Frank: "Is that how your mother sounded?" "Worse," says Frank. "Do it again," Bergman tells Emck, as the process of art imitating life is guided by the patient's recollection of a moment in a five-year-old's life...
...because "it seems likely that a minority-dominated hierarchical ethnic system...will become increasingly difficult to maintain"; the historical demise of other ruling racial minorities suggested apartheid could not survive unchanged. (p. 11). And rather than waiting for a revolutionary overthrow, he suggested that ruling elites might want to shape the changes themselves...
...then, slowly at first, the anxiety began to take on a shape that could be sensed if not exactly foreseen. On all the world's stock exchanges, prices had leaped up too far, too fast, to be sustained. The mood in the markets shifted from fantasy about instant wealth to nervousness about an inevitable "correction" (a wonderful euphemism). By Monday morning the concern was no longer vague but had taken on physical form -- piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price...
Deaver seems to have made a strong comeback from alcoholism, and is dealing well with the strain of his impending trial. "He is a man at peace with himself," says a friend. "He's in marvelous mental shape, relaxed, pleasant and interested in gardening." Indeed, the day before jury selection began, Deaver was in his garden planting spring bulbs, a gesture that bespeaks some hope for the future...
...exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary James Baker gives the Administration' s view of the tumult. -- One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose. -- Wall Street' s investment houses brace for hard times. -- Some prescient and lucky investors survive the crash in fine shape. -- Six ways to curb America' s budget and trade deficits. -- 1929: the way it was the last time...