Word: leanness
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...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...administration is now finding itself having to choreograph two reluctant dancers in a cease-fire process for which neither has much enthusiasm. To what extent will Washington be prepared to lean on the players to move them forward...
...LEAN YEARS The tower began leaning almost from the beginning, in 1173. Over the course of the tower's 200-year construction, builders tried to compensate for the list, resulting in a slightly banana-shaped structure...
...PACK A set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff
...Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled 4 m high along the quay. Stroll the boulevards of decaying colonial storefronts and the pungent waterfront in the old city to trace the port's Portuguese and British history. For a bed, try the Hotel Agrabad, the city's best at around...