Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrank so much that he carried the results of four years' work in six matchboxes in his pocket; and since then, try as he may, his lovely, attenuated figures still look like fugitives from a cane gang. Inevitably, Giacometti's search for essentials gave his work a lean and existential look, leading Jean-Paul Sartre to write admiringly: "For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space...
...Running isn't good or bad for the skin," concedes Dermatologist Abrahams, but 40 to 50 miles of running every week keeps his weight below 160. The father of twelve children, Internist Sheehan takes a more positive view. "Distance running is good for the heart," says the lean Sheehan, who in 1940 finished second in the I.C.4-A mile at Madison Square Garden, still manages to clock 30 miles a week. "There is some evidence that it produces an anticoagulant, keeps the blood vessels clean, lowers the blood pressure and slows the pulse." Is that why he runs the long...
...Federal Government's Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy six-footer with the deepset eyes and anguished look clearly did not savor the glare of publicity...
...Under Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Jack Hood Vaughn, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance. The mission, as a White House aide put it, was intended to "accelerate strategy." Officially neutral, the U.S. at first had seemed to lean to Imbert's junta. With the arrival of the Bundy mission, the U.S. started working toward a coalition headed by a onetime Bosch Cabinet member whose main qualification was that he had said he was antiCommunist (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The unbreakable and intolerable bond between the two friends-one not wholly a Jew or admirable, the other not wholly an Aryan or despicable-gives the book its symbolic structure...