Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tall and lean (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), Helmsley keeps fit by frequent skiing. He often stays home in Westchester County for a day or two a week to toil over papers without interruptions. He keeps a direct phone line from home to his office switchboard, however, "so no one knows whether I'm calling him from the office...
...dextrous way that he applied blues and a beat to the delicate lines of traditional Spanish guitar. But his high, quavery tenor, though obviously brimming with feeling, was merely good; it had too much of other singers in it and too little of Feliciano. So Jose spent some lean years in search not only of exposure but also of an identity...
...question (Tom Bell) is more than just lean and good looking and a whiz at going up and down drainpipes. He suffers and feels for the sufferings of others: the lonely misery of a middle-aged slattern whose husband is doing time, the agony of a vixen caught in a trap. His girl (Judi Dench) is really no bird for a burglar. She is a slightly scruffy but sensitive young woman who is doing her best to raise a five-year-old illegitimate son by teaching art in the orphanage where she boards him and by selling encyclopedias...
That was the final tribute to the tall, lean man with blue eyes and a fringe of gray hair who was known to many students at Harvard because of his client attitude toward grades...
...composer, who exiled himself shortly after Dictator Juan Perón came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala...