Word: brims
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...problem stems from the size of this magnificent book, which is every bit as big and heavy as it has to be to accommodate hundreds of sumptuous reproductions. They too, of course, distract attention from the text: voluptuous nudes, enchanted gardens, glittering portraits and skies filled to the brim with sunlight. Dedicated readers will learn that Renoir's long life was not as serene and untroubled as the joy that shines from his canvases might suggest. That information is worth knowing, but examining these pictures is a greater reward...
Vinnie has better luck. Despite a preference for slim, elegant men, she be friends a retired engineer from Tulsa who tours London in Western boots, broad brim hat and plastic raincoat. The cow boy and the kiddie-lit professor make an odd couple, but they have much to offer each other. She helps him research his ancestry; he proves to be an intelligent observer and, in due course, a sensitive lover...
...still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season, a burst of Morgan's old self in the closing month filled his ego to at least an inch above the brim. "I'm the best 5-ft. 8-in. baseball player in history," he says. "You ain't five-eight," says Rose...
...Franklin Spinneys of this world are the type that President Reagan has asked us to emulate: honest, forthright and fiscally conservative. Yet the Reagan Administration tries to curb Government growth but encourages defense spending. Welfare is deplored, but military and industrial pork barrels are filled to the brim. It does not make sense...
...enters the office to which he has been summoned. Thinner than in September, he is still boy-faced. He shakes hands with all the soldiers sitting around the room. He wears a camouflage suit, a pair of sneakers and a cap that looks like a sun hat with the brim turned up, his P.L.O. badge pinned to the front of it. He plunks down on a couch with a machine gun resting in his lap. Then he gives his visitor the business for publishing the name of his girlfriend in last winter's story. His visitor tells...