Word: leanness
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Satrapi's drawing style is graceful and unfussy, with strong lines, heavy blacked-in figures and inky shadows. By telling her own story in lean, simple strokes, she also tells the complicated modern history of her country. "Basically, the things that I said are all true," she says. "But it's not a documentary. You always have to arrange things to tell a story. I'm not going to point exactly to where I have changed things. That's my secret...
...been selecting from a menu of technological aids in a bid to get to the top of his event?a leg-sapping, lung-wringing combination of swimming, cycling and running that only the fittest, and perhaps dorkiest, athletes can win. "Triathlon is a nerdy sport," says the intense, lean, 1.7-m Blake. "We have the weirdest group of people into the most gimmicky, gizmo things...
...filing reveals that DreamWorks' animation division lost more than $350 million over the past five years. It also warns of a litany of potential pitfalls, from the studio's meager slate of big-budget films to its undersized library of movies from which to generate cash during lean years...
...When internationally feted art star Gormley appeared on the horizon almost three years ago, it must have seemed a miracle. "He looks a bit like the messiah," reports Finlayson. "He's very tall and lean, and he wore sandals and flowing clothes. I actually think they thought he was J.C. himself." Arriving unannounced in the roadhouse one day, having already driven out to the lake, Gormley had "burned himself a beauty," recalls Earnshaw. "He's a very down-to-earth bloke - and a bit strange, like all artists are. He couldn't be him and not be a bit different...
...nuclear and smallpox weapons, the CIA pumped up its assessment of both threats based on unsupported or nonexistent intelligence and on analysis that was "at minimum, misleading." The report quotes the CIA's highest-ranking analyst as saying she instructed her underlings to write a "speculative piece" that would "lean far forward" and "stretch to the maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between al-Qaeda and Saddam...