Word: leanings
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...there was a lot to reward a scrappy faith in human persistence. Amid a flotilla of alien invasions, The English Patient brought David Lean-like scope and passion back to the Cineplex. Still laboring under Khomeini's fatwa, Salman Rushdie produced what may be his greatest novel. A rock update of La Boheme brought the Broadway musical resoundingly into the '90s. The Fugees proved you can sell millions of rap records without gangsta's toxicity, while Tiger Woods broadened golf's horizons simply by showing up. And Jerry Seinfeld stayed funny, defying sitcomic entropy. So here...
...gift of making intelligence erotic; they come together in a dance of doom that is abrasive, mysterious, powerful, inevitable. Anthony Minghella's beautiful film, based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, gets the rapture right, with a scope and intimacy rarely seen on film since the David Lean days...
...frock of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy this year, but this masterpiece by her former boss warrants just as much fanfare. Although minimalism and sensuality are typically fashion's warring cousins, this off-the-shoulder evening gown joins them together in an elegantly peaceful union. True to Klein form with its lean cut and absence of adornment, the shapely dress pays stunning tribute to the female body without a hint of tawdriness. It is everything that evening wear should be--dramatic but not overwhelming...
Sadat said her father told her in 1974 that he strongly believed in a passage from the Koran which says that "if someone leans to peace, you must lean to them...
...berth shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces--among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects a U.S. decision to put its weight behind (or to lean against) the U.N. But partly, the expansion of power reflects the personal confidence which Hammarskjold has inspired...