Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS edited by Malcolm Brown (Norton; $27.50). David Lean's recently rereleased Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest epic films ever made. But its subject remains an enigma. He tells his own story here in letters, nearly two-thirds of them previously unpublished, and illuminates the shadows of his personality...
Later that afternoon at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, the Big Green football team was a mean, lean fighting machine. The defending Ivy champion Crimson committed six turnovers and fell, 38-7. Harvard's chances of finshing on top of the Ivy standings for the second year in a row were slim even before the game began...
...biblical times, a famed Pharaoh once dreamed of seven fat years of plenty followed by seven lean years of want. With the U.S. economy in the seventh year of a record peacetime expansion, signs are multiplying that for many Americans the fat times are coming to an end. In their place, economists prophesy everything from a soft landing, which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic...
...perplexed Pharaoh awoke from his dream-filled sleep, Joseph advised the ruler to store food from coming harvests against the time of want. At the moment, no Joseph is available to persuade Washington to adopt frugal habits, even when the fat years are in danger of turning to lean ones...
Since then, the Lawrence legend has thrived through a steady stream of biographies and memoirs. His life sparked one of the greatest epic films ever made: David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), recently rereleased in the original, uncut version its director intended. Moviegoers can once again admire Peter O'Toole in the title role and assume that they have seen Lawrence whole. They have not, through no fault of the actor or anyone else involved in that exemplary movie. On the evidence of The Selected Letters, which includes 470 examples, roughly two-thirds published for the first time, Lawrence...