Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with debris and bounded on one side by doors that creep open each time the train gathers speed. One inch, two inches . . . what next? A young woman in a dressed-for-success suit, leg warmers and running shoes tries to offer some consolation: "But you have a partition to lean against." The connection between leaning against a partition and comfort is, however, unclear to the newcomer...
...Killing Fields shares with David Lean's A Passage to India the distinction of being the most talked about and least seen film in recent memory. Start with a semi-obscure literary topic tinged with the Oriental mystery (Schanberg wrote an article about his efforts to find Dith Pran, and E.M. Forester's novel has been appeared in God only knows how many Cafe Pamplona discussions), favorable advance press in the right places, and a restricted New York-LA-Chicago distribution, and you have the makings of a film with big, big Harvard appeal...
...Joffe and Lean have other qualities in common. They both understand how to capture history on film. Lean's films (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and now A Passage to India) synthesize a coherent narrative inside of a wide vision of history. Joffe has mimicked many of Lean's techniques, achieving a balance between the personal relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing...
...next stop, a woman named Frances Wisner, a south Texas telephone operator who settled on the river in 1940, sat waiting with her German shepherd under a lean-to. She wore more layers than a high-society wedding cake. She gave Ray Arnold a meat-loaf sandwich, a cup of steaming coffee and a piece of her mind. She said it might help the federal deficit if they placed higher taxes on every soft drink but Coca-Cola, which she drinks, and every candy bar but Milky Way, which she favors. Around them, gathering dusk turned...
Named as the project's overseer was Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, a tall, slim officer who made his name by helping to develop the lean and mean F-16 fighter jet in the 1970s. Abrahamson's office, in a drab rented building two blocks from the White House, is dominated by a large conference table and a blackboard on which he constantly chalks diagrams. Budgeted at $1.4 billion in the current year, the SDI is scheduled to spend some $26 billion over five years. There are fewer than 100 full-time staffers; most of the funds...