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...likely candidate for lieutenant governor, complained about what she thought was an inappropriate choice of words on the part of an airport shuttle driver. "Did he call me `darling? "Clapprood asked friends. They told her she had misunderstood. The driver's quite appropriate warning had been, "Don't lean on the door...
...expect some 21st century director to filch a scene from Little Vera the way David Lean, Brian De Palma and others have quoted the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin. For one thing, critical realism, the style of most glasnost films, eschews the bold editing effects and pristine iconography of the Soviet silents. But style is subordinate to message just now: the priority is journalism, not art. To U.S. eyes, the rebels without a cause in an alienated-teen drama like Valeri Ogorodnikov's The Burglar are a sight as nostalgic as Hula-Hoops. But in the U.S.S.R. these...
Maybe with a little more support, it will pick up at Harvard. And maybe the team will get a few more tables which can honestly sing, "Lean...
...recent morning, Willey and a partner, E.D.F. lawyer Tom Graff, headed from their Oakland office down Highway 5 to dicker with irrigation districts on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. An odd pair: Willey, somewhere over 6 ft. 5 in. in his cowboy boots, lean, green-eyed and with an easy grin; Graff, short and with a squared-off boxer's nose, but unpugnacious. As environmentalists go, they speak softly and strangely: California water distribution suffers under misguided socialist precepts, they argue. What it needs is fewer bureaucrats and more capitalists. Turn water into a commodity people...
...like airline food, you should wait until there is a lot of turbulence before you serve the passengers. This is very important, since nauseous passengers do not eat much, and the airline can recycle the unused food. Turbulence is also essential when serving drinks. Make sure to lean over seated passengers when pouring scalding hot tea or coffee...