Word: leaned
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SINCE HIS ARRIVAL ON THE POST-punk scene 17 years ago, Elvis Costello has shown himself to be one of the most prolific and protean songwriters of his generation. Known for lean, melodious three-minute songs with scathing lyrics about sexual guilt and revenge, he reigned for more than a decade as the acerbic headliner of progressive pop. Then came the '90s. Once a skinny faux nerd, Costello put on weight and grew a beard. His last pop album, 1991's sentimental Mighty like a Rose, was a disappointment. After last year's The Juliet Letters, a sedate song cycle...
Home:The mean streets and Adams Hose (although as recently as last week, the Lean Green Bikin' Machine was seen sleeping at the Salvation Army down in Central Square...
...first time Aaron told me he was fat, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. A 5'11," 160-pound swimmer, he was lean and lanky, and as I thought privately, too thin. Yet there I was, sitting with him in the parking lot of his high school, listening to him as he complained about his body...
Even if he finds a deal he can accept, Milosevic will have to lean on Bosnian Serbs, especially militia leaders, who view the Muslim-Croat plan as nothing more than an alliance uniting the Serbs' enemies. Rather than join a federation tied to Croatia, the Bosnian Serbs are far more likely to hold out for a republic of their own with links to Serbia -- Greater Serbia in effect, if not in name...
...wrong. One day 36 years after the disease disrupted her childhood, she felt some familiar symptoms. They started as muscle fatigue, weakness and pain. Then her legs collapsed under her, and she had to lean against walls to stand up straight. She went to specialists and took test after test. "They all came back negative," says Simon. "One doctor thought I was mentally ill and sent me to a psychotherapist." Finally, four years later, Simon was correctly diagnosed. She had polio. Again...