Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan restaurant, a round, balding actor-playwright named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise...
...balk at returning the rest of the Sinai to Egyptian rule on schedule next April, or to continue stalling on negotiations with Cairo to provide autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, or both. The Reagan Administration has proved notably unwilling to lean on Israel in any way that would assuage Arab fears. Washington's ineffectual protests against Israeli air raids on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, and on Palestinian areas of Beirut, were widely and bitterly noted in the Arab world. The Arabs, moreover, have been unmoved by U.S. pressures to form...
...fugitive from the North, and his hard, lean looks, the result of a life in prison that consumed nearly 25 of his 37 years, enabled Jack Henry Abbott to mix in easily with the transient roustabouts who work the Louisiana oilfields. It was the sort of life where a man could, if he wanted to, virtually disappear. Earlier this year, Norman Mailer had led a campaign to secure parole for Abbott, largely on the basis of his writing talent. His letters from prison, collected under the title In the Belly of the Beast, were released to fair critical acclaim...
...Updike looks lean and fit. He claims an excess of 5 Ibs., but has visibly avoided Rabbit's paunch. He was jogging while writing Rabbit Is Rich but has stopped, at least for a while. He retains an interest in skiing, although he finds "it gets increasingly scary, the stiffer I feel and the more fragile." Social life consists of a round of dinner parties and frequent trips to Boston to see friends, ballet...
...drink commercials who had burst onto the boxing scene at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and then vaulted with seeming ease to fame, $25 million in purses and a professional record of 30 wins (21 by knockouts) and one loss; and Thomas Hearns, 22, the "Hit Man," mean-looking and lean as a snake, who climbed from poverty and anonymity in his home town of Detroit to-well, surprisingly modest fortune and fame for a man of his accomplishments (32-0, with 30 knockouts...