Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhythmic Finesse. Born continents and almost a generation apart, both prove that talent tells. Cantrell, 23, is a slangy, swinging Aussie blonde with a communicable crush on life. She's got a lean, almost Twiggy figure, long arms, and a lilting voice. More of a pop than a jazz singer, she goes against all cabaret conventions. She opens with downbeat tunes such as I'm All Smiles, and then follows with joyous ballads - Let Your self Go, Nothing Can Stop Me Now, Sunny - achieving an intense dramatic vocal projection that plays an audience much as Streisand does...
...tennis buff for the name of the best amateur player in the U.S., and the answer is likely to be Arthur Ashe, the lean, tall Virginian who is the first Negro ever to top the U.S. men's rankings. These days, though, the answer may not come so quickly. And any hesitance reflects the fact that Ashe, 23, has yet to win a major tournament. What's more, there is at least one other American around who seems to have Arthur's number: his old college roommate at U.C.L.A., Charles Pasarell...
...language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
...clan's Clyde Beatty, is collaborating with his brother Michael, 8, on The Great Slaughter, a treatise on man's inhumanity to beast. Young Bobby already knows most of the basics about wildlife just from watching his own private animal kingdom at home in Mc-Lean, Va., where he tenderly harbors a scaly tegu named Thor, an iguana, two hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses. He used to have a fierce, 31-ft. Oriental dragon. "But the dragon...
...lean prose, Manchester skillfully traces Oswald's mounting frustrations and emphasizes his wife Marina's role in bringing him to the breaking point. "Lee," he writes, "had thought he had found a beautiful, dedicated Communist who would forever be his submissive darling. He had expected her to scorn the world that scorned him and reject the materialism of a capitalist society." Instead, she jeered at all his failures and paid him the ultimate insult of leaving him. Somewhat melodramatically, Manchester pictures Oswald "going mad" while watching a flickering TV set the night before the murder. The author never...