Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Symphony No. 28 have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca da Rimini-than he is with the classical repertory...
...groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous...
...like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never...
...football team goes for meat and potatoes and anything else they can get their hands on. The women's basketball team is know for its predilection for Cahaly's ice cream. And the lithe, lean and weight-conscious members of the women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL...
...good news came in the long, lean form of Schuler's roomate, junior Andrew Regan, whose time of 25:58 in the J.V. race would have placed him among the varsity's top five runners. Regan, who has been running inconsistently all year, was placed on the J.V. because each team can only enter nine runners in the varsity event...