Word: leanness
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LATER, A HALF-HOUR alone with the man shows nothing further underneath. Ask about nuclear--Reagan will lean forward, voice husky with sincerity and with the strain of endless campaigning. "I wish students would look into the entire problem, so they could see the refutation that is available," he says. Now expansive, leaning back, reciting Guiness-Book evidence. "Even Three Mile Island, and that was worst, had less radiation than flying coast-to-coast on an airplane. Less radiation than living at the altitude of Denver." Reassuring, even compassionate now, Reagan switches topics; he counsels young people not to protest...
GIGOLO could have been an orchestrated rock-teasing paean to American sexuality of barely sublimated desire, bulging jeans and watery eyes, sex sans porn, pulse without flesh, a lean, lacquered look at the demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder...
...Persian Gulf region, Carter could try new approaches to solving the hostage crisis in Tehran; he took a step in this direction last week by urging Iran to recognize the Soviet Union as by far its greatest threat. To win respect and influence throughout the Muslim world, he could lean on Israel to settle the Palestinian problem. He also could push harder for American energy independence, which would free the U.S. from OPEC blackmail. At the same time, he could plan on eventually resuming his campaign for Senate approval of the SALT II pact, for stabilization of the superpowers' strategic...
...slug of beer. Crush out the cigarette, blink, and lean forward, towards the screen. Frank Reynolds is blinking at them. He never quite looks them in the eye. The TV projects its blue gleam over waxen faces. A sip of beer. In an aggressive gesture President Carter may boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow if the Russians don't go home. This threat elicits a wry smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks...
Badlands (1974). Terrence Malick's lean, poetic fable about a murderer and his girl on a rampage through lonely rural America in the 1950s...