Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with. "You simply can't have a strong filmgoing climate unless you have a healthy domestic film product," says Silvera. "Britain and Italy have learned that to their distress." Though Americans are familiar with titles like The Last Metro and La Cage aux Folles, most French movies, which lean toward police thrillers, comedies and love stories, never cross the Atlantic, since distributors are convinced that they would not find an audience...
...lean, gray-haired man of 65, regards himself as one of the lucky ones. "Mine," he says, "may be the only family here with no sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian...
Still, without such jobs, the camp's residents will have to lean heavily on the charity of Houston's private citizens, since the state of Texas is unlikely to provide much help. The Houston Department of Human Resources has printed a pamphlet called Dead Broke in Texas to publicize the stinginess of the state welfare system, one of the least generous in the nation. "Most of those types of people are on their own," says Charles Ternes, department spokesman. "That's why they're living in Tent City-there's no place else for them...
...style is traditional-stately. His imagery of the Indian landscape has a conventional handsomeness that is more predictable then enlivening. His staging of the many and brutal confrontations between Gandhi's followers and their official oppressors is competent and craftsmanlike, but the electricity that someone like David Lean can bring to work of this kind rarely crackles from the screen. Historical personages are played by stars (John Gielgud as Lord Irwin, Candice Bergen as Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), who do their bits professionally but more often than not are forced to carry an awkward burden of exposition. They...
...answer is: little if anything. The analysts who evaluate and rank places lean entirely on objective criteria that play a relatively small role among the influences that determine where people make their homes. For one thing, the big majority of the world's people are born into the places that remain their homes for life. In the U.S., almost 64% of the people live today in the states in which they were born. It is safe to assume that few of those made a prenatal choice of birthplace on the basis of economic, political, social and cultural factors such...