Word: leaning
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MILES DAVIS (1926-1991) Kind of Blue, Davis' landmark 1959 recording with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, was the apotheosis of Cool Jazz. Distilling the music to an almost bare essence, Davis and arranger Bill Evans created a lean, sensuous sound that broke with the intensity of bebop and attracted thousands of new listeners to jazz. Davis' warm, amber tone was the model for a generation of trumpeters...
...knew that we couldn't lean back on our heelsand think the fight was over. "I got to Harvard, Iwon." Harvard is where the fight just began, andwhat distinguished us from the people around uswas how willing we were to work and sweat andstruggle to do better. To be better. Not merelyfor our own sake, but for the sake of the countrythat had given us such a privilege. To whom muchis given, much is expected in return, and few wereever given as much as my classmates...
...heart-stopping moment," says Lee, who knew Toho could sink the proposed Godzilla then and there. Some quick talking took place. Says Emmerich: "I told the Japanese guys the biggest difference would be that the creature is very lean because he's very fast. I also told them, 'Guys, we either do it like this, or we don't do it at all. It's your trademark, but if you don't do it this way, I'll go make another movie, and you'll have to find someone else.'" That argument carried some weight: Toho was the Japanese distributor...
...their curse and could manage the trade-off, although he insisted on certain terms and boundaries. He dismissed purveyors of some of the seamier press gossip about him as "pimps and whores. Because they can't write their own name to earn a living properly. They got to lean on somebody else." But Sinatra in those years was natural tabloid fodder, doing the clubs with Ava Gardner (wife No. 2) and Juliet Prowse, and courting Mia Farrow, who became, fleetingly, wife No. 3. And scandal, spurious as it may have been, exerted its own fascination, deepened the dark edge...
...there are doubts about the rightness of the fit, they center on the issue of the two corporate cultures. Chrysler's near-death experience has turned the company into a lean, profit-obsessed organization--short on bureaucracy but long on management talent. In the great Detroit tradition, pragmatism and margin protection can take precedence over quality when they are in conflict...