Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milles' fancy is not every man's taste. Though traditional, he is not traditional enough to keep some from ridiculing his exaggeratedly lean figures. One St. Louis art commission member thought Milles' The Meeting of the Waters (above) looked like "a wedding in a nudist colony." Modernists have found Milles wanting in imagination to move beyond the aura of Rodin, and lacking in Rodin's great power. For his part Milles sees little to praise in modern sculpture. "Their work is too stiff," he says. "They take a spiral and make a hole...
Adapted by Director David (Great Expectations') Lean and Novelist H. E. Bates from the Broadway success, The Time of the Cuckoo, the script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life...
Kidney-Shaped Command Post. Today, Reuther, labor's aging (47) boy wonder, still looks boyish: no grey threads his reddish hair, no bags encase his eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "lean and slipper'd pantaloon," "second childishness...
tall, has the same lean, lanky build, the same courtly manners and, at close range, the same considerable charm. Like Avery, he is a lawyer (Indiana '30) and a "clean-desk man." He started in Ward's legal department in 1933, quickly rose to be director of labor relations. Avery's respect for Barr rose at the way he masterminded Ward's fight against the War Labor Board, which included the famed carrying-out of Avery by the Army. Under Barr, the union was kept out of Ward. Recently, when Avery needed the A.F.L. Teamsters...