Word: leanness
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...engraved lintels (the duke, it seems, had a little P. Diddy in him) and began exploring from the top down. The palace doubles as the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, and the paintings within are a reminder that Renaissance art was heavily religious. But the paintings on the first floor lean toward the secular. One in particular, Ideal City, belongs near the top of any list of great Renaissance works. The painting, by an unknown artist, is a dream of a city so pure and precise that the creator actually left people out of it. The pictures at the overstuffed, overcrowded...
...quite possible that our criteria for obesity and our thinking about its medical implications have been warped by fashion. We all know morbid obesity when we see it; clearly, it interferes with activities of daily living and makes people unhappy and unhealthy. But being too lean may also compromise health and successful aging. I believe that those who are somewhat overweight but fit in middle age may enjoy a healthier and longer old age than those who are lean...
...formidable. Rodin had rethought the human body more thoroughly than any sculptor since Michelangelo and made it the vessel of passions-pain, pathos, ecstasy-that the increasingly insipid conventions of 19th century statuary could not contain. That is immediately apparent in his magnificent Saint John the Baptist, a lean, striding nude who bears no attributes of the saint-no lamb, no staff-so that the saint's spiritual force is expressed entirely in the headlong power of his anatomy...
...sure sign of Hamas's emergence from the shadows is its new media office in central Gaza. Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully. The only furniture in the otherwise empty suite is a brand new desk, behind which sits Sami Abu Zuhry, a trim 38-year-old history Professor recently named Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Zuhry rejects suggestions that Hamas wants to take over Gaza now the Israelis are gone. "We don't want control," he says. "We want elections...
...Katrina's damage was multiplied a thousand times by the breach of the levees. This is a classic case of the penny-wise, pound-foolish policies of modern politicians and bureaucrats. The problem is not limited to the Bush Administration. Driven by concepts like cost cutting and lean government, shortsighted budget officials may save a few billion dollars, but they end up losing $50 billion when tragedies must be dealt with later on. Anil Kumar Aleti Hyderabad, India...