Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cats and a lean tiger--it's very clear Murphy is not "Harvard." Sure, the former Cincinnati coach grew up around here, but settling in at Dillon Field House is just a good job to him and not a lifetime ambition fulfilled...
...breath is a useful condition to impose on Pacino. Really good movie actors force you to lean in a little in order to catch their meaning. Pacino, + instead, leans on you, and though his boldness is sometimes impressive, in its calculated way there is also something overweening about it. There's almost no vulnerability about him, and that quality was what kept Cagney in a viewer's good graces. It is why Cagney's hoodlums seemed touched by tragedy, while Carlito seems touched only by technique. There is an irony here: an actor's bruising desire to transcend type...
Though the Reform Party will not have the perks and privileges of being the official opposition, it will surely be solicited as an ally by the Bloc Quebecois on many occasions. Both parties lean to the right and represent many older Canadians. Nevertheless, one major difference exists between the two factions. While the avowed purpose of the Bloc Quebecois is increased independence for Quebec, the Reform Party represents a constituency that resents Quebec's existing special status and would rather see the province become a sovereign state than grant it more privileges...
...mess with the Harvard police. They're lean, mean law-enforcing machines...
...knows--maybe this weekend I'll convert all my first-year papers to Microsoft Word. Or throw out my long suffering jeans. Or buy a new lamp that doesn't lean. Or give away the old pencil case I never...