Word: leanings
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...looks, the more doubt and qualification one finds. It was far from Matisse's mind to impose an artificial certainty on the flux of vision. The resolution of his great 1914 still life, Goldfish and Palette, is provisional; on either side of the black central column things teeter and lean; even the curlicues of the black iron balcony seem held in a fragile equilibrium...
...then one day he returns. After 20 years, one finally sees his face. ^ Nelson Mandela's face too was hidden from the world for decades. When finally revealed, it had the grace, the radiance that fit the legend. Fischer? The face that 20 years ago was lean and sharp and taut is now merely gnarled. His manner, once simply eccentric, is wild and embarrassing...
...news of that exchange circulated, the conservative faithful in Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business...
...hinterlands of the former Yugoslavia last week, TIME correspondents found believable evidence everywhere. In the northern village of Trnopolje they visited the "Fraternity" elementary school that Serb militia forces have turned into a detention camp for 4,000 people, mostly Muslim men. Half the captives live outdoors in makeshift lean-tos; they all ^ get the same dirty water and use the same three toilets. One inmate, Hajudin Zubovic, a 28-year-old miner, told how a dozen or more prisoners at a ceramics factory in the area had been forced to stand in the sun all afternoon on July...
...June, has mooted the normal distinction between a recovery and a slump. The harsh reality is that the U.S. remains mired in a prolonged period of stagnation that threatens to drag on for years. Companies have restructured, whole industries have scaled back their work forces, and staying lean has become embedded in the corporate consciousness. "This is the end of the post- World War boom era," says employment analyst Dan Lacey, who publishes the newsletter Workplace Trends. "We are never going to go back to what we knew. This is a permanent dismantling of corporate bureaucracies...