Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader through a series of crepuscular turns with the smooth efficiency of a Mercedes on a rain-slicked street at night. The quiet operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...
...standard of measurement on the ground that the paper's conservatism predates the arrival of the Reagan crowd ("We're happy to have them in our camp, but we're not in theirs"). For the past 15 years, editorials have been the province of Robert L. Bartley, who is lean, incisive and full of certitude. His combativeness came out in a famously stormy dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers' testy independence did not begin with Bartley: Phillips remembers Bartley's predecessor, Vermont Connecticut Royster, protesting...
These votes for women's colleges are just two in a newly resurgent constituency. The 1960s and '70s were lean years for women's education. The opening of such male bastions as Yale, Dartmouth and the service academies helped draw so many crack high school girls into coed institutions that two- thirds of the nation's 298 women's colleges either went coed or closed their doors. But today the surviving 101 boast that undergraduate enrollment is surging, despite a declining pool of high school graduates. Last week a preliminary survey of 64 schools, conducted by the Women's College...
...view a little surgical correction as the finishing touch to their efforts at the health club. "These people are in great shape and aware of their diet, yet their faces look older because of sun exposure," observes Dr. Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist. Michael, 46, a lean Manhattan executive typifies the trend. Over the past six months he has undergone a grand-slam rehab: eye lift, face-lift and collagen shots to plump out his facial wrinkles. "I had a body by Michelangelo and face by Goya," he says. "No matter how much exercise I did, the face...
...will receive some 5,000 letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...