Word: leanings
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...brave man, but I like to think I know when a damsel is in distress. I lean over and ask if she minds that she is being used as a model for next year's Christmas cards sent out by paparazzi. She shoots me a "what can I do?" smile. I sense that I cannot duck my destiny with gallantry. I utter the words that I've heard from a slew of celebrity handlers over the years. "Come on gentlemen... last two pictures. Miss Fonda is due on stage right...
...Another calm. I think it's over. Wrong. A third storm. Still nothing from the pilot. Seams are holding. I lean in to the window as far as I can. Nothing but black, punctuated by flashes and that dreadful crash of thunder. I'm wearing out my necklace. I want out of this. I close my eyes. Maybe that'll help me cope. Eyes pop back open. Need to see what's going on! Have to get through this. The pilot apparently is. Plane isn't breaking apart...
Been victimized by an overly tempting credit card offer? Charge your way through some lean years and need a way out? Or just fallen on hard times? Three words: Chapter 7 bankruptcy. But you'd better hurry - an overhaul of bankruptcy law is through the Senate and on its way to the waiting pen of George W. Bush...
...nominations has won the top prize 16 of the past 17 years. Gladiator is also a familiar kind of Oscar (and critical) favorite: a movie that reminds us of the better movies they don't make any more. Thus The English Patient was a psychological spectacle in the David Lean tradition; Shakespeare in Love was a screwball romance with fancy English; Braveheart was a historical epic, like Hamlet or A Man for All Seasons but with more blood and lots less eloquence...
...sales up 59% in December. Bison, only half as fat as chicken and with 30% more protein than beef, is also winning new European fans. More unusual offerings are starting to make their way into some markets and restaurants. Among them: ostrich, emu and kangaroo, all of which are lean and tender red meats. But, like bison, they are much more expensive than beef. Beef aficionados also claim the big birds tend to be dry and lack the savor of a juicy entrecote. European ostrich farmers are nonetheless ecstatic over their newly thriving business. Some Austrian producers are suddenly facing...