Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention will also consider the method for ratifying the council's constitution. Many delegates apparently lean toward a referendum of the entire student body, but whether a majority or a two-thirds vote will be necessary for passage has not yet been decided...
...researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play that "lean and hungry" hero-villain Cassius...
This year two books need no color to make them models of superlative craftsmanship and originality. In My Village, Sturbridge (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), Gary Bowen invents a character, True Mason, and walks him through a 19th century New England village. Bowen's style is lean and precise. But it is his and Randy Miller's brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does...
...have a theory, people want a justification for it. Despite my status as an authority on lectures, I am baffled, frankly, and also miffed and perplexed, in addition to stymied and uninformed, about why lecturers lean left...
Though Wallraff's lean, ascetic face has appeared on each of his six books and many magazine pieces, he undertakes no mysterious disguises. All he usually does is get a haircut, suitable clothes and new frames for his glasses. For the Bild Zeitung caper, he also shaved off his mustache, adopted the name of Hans Esser and passed a pre-employment writing test at the paper. Once hired, he had to turn out credibly trashy articles. He also had to socialize heavily with fellow reporters and pretend to share their views to prevent detection. His account of the experience...