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...deal, but in Cannes -- where thousands of journalists swarmed around Hearst, Robert Redford and Richard Gere -- movies are the art of the interview. So praise be to Director John Waters, whose catty ebullience suggests Oscar Wilde without the angst. And all hail to David Lean, emperor of the epic, who charmed with his bluff majesty and his tut-tutting about Britain's new "miniature" film industry...
...private on the other person's turf. Don't act like the guy in The Unmarried Woman, who tells his wife he's leaving while he's walking down Fifth Avenue. Don't say goodbye while on vacation. The other person needs to be near friends and family to lean...
...from the creek named Scorched Lime in the northern slums of Manila lies a settlement called Happy Land. The name notwithstanding, Happy Land is neither happy nor on land. A collection of lean-tos patched together from plastic, cardboard, plywood and scrap metal, Happy Land is built on stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled...
This later study confirmed her previous results, as she found that the selected athletes had a delayed menarche, a "lean" build and irregular menstrual cycles...
That's a lot of understatement. Brian Boitano and Brian Orser are linked circles in a perfect figure eight -- they mirror each other. It is not just because they have the same name, the same lean look and the same longish hairstyle. The two are both homebodies who enjoy the pampered slot of youngest in a long line of siblings. Each took up skating before his tenth birthday, and (unlike most skaters) still trains with his first and only coach. Both have captured a string of national figure-skating titles, Boitano in the U.S., | Orser in Canada. Each has reigned...