Word: leanings
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...select poems evoking images of his native English landscape before a packed audience last night. Speaking some lines with slow, measured syllables and others with rapid, beat-like inflections, Armitage led his audience to laugh at his unexpected images, tap their fingers to the beat of his words, and lean forward to catch his every fading syllable. “Simon’s poetry behaves characteristically in a very recognizable geography of everyday life,” English Professor W. James Simpson said in introduction. “But they also have the capacity to invest that ordinary experience...
...Professional sports have changed a lot since the dark days of the Depression. Downturn or not, it's no longer cheap to follow a team first hand. Gentrified soccer stadiums and ballparks lean more heavily on corporate dollars than the wallet of the average fan. What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read...
...style, if his substantive fingerprints are still conspicuously absent.Unfortunately, the rigid pacing and logical arc of the conventional detective story don’t quite jive with Pynchon’s classic (one might say, inherent) psychedelia. The novel really does feel shaggy and baggy, because the normally lean detective genre has had to loosen up to accommodate Pynchon’s wild narrative loops and quixotic scenic fancies. When the dentist’s secretary pauses a plot-advancing conversation to ask Doc’s friend—“Excuse me, . . . is that a slice...
...laugh” he says.The majority of his business comes from commissions, which is what enables the Smile Project to continue. “Each month I save X amount of money, and leave five to 15 paintings,” Bataclan says. “In lean times just five, in really good times I leave more.” In the past year the message associated with the project has changed, though the ultimate goal remains the same. Since the economic downturn began last year, Bataclan changed the notes to proclaim a message that “Everything...
...additional $150 million on pork products during fiscal year 2009; the industry also asked for $100 million to help survey herds for H1N1. In a similar letter from state governors, lawmakers requested that the government urge overseas markets to start buying U.S. pork again, and Vilsack said he would lean on the international trading partners who haven't yet lifted their U.S. pork bans. "Among the ones who have been open to reason and logic," he says tartly, "many of the barriers are already down." (Read "Swine Flu: Don't Blame...