Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dole, 61, a tall, lean man with a ready grin, spent eight years in the House before winning a Senate seat in 1968. He has a reputation as an adroit legislative craftsman and a fierce competitor. His biting wit is legendary, but the vituperative remarks that earned him the "hatchet man" label as Gerald Ford's 1976 running mate are rare now. More typical is the comment he made last week when his wife presented him with a congratulatory schnauzer named Leader. Deadpanned Dole: "It's an indication of where my leadership is going. Housebroken but not Senate...
Betrayal is minimalist self-conscious pseudo-drama at its most lean and mean, a love triangle chopped up, robbed of emotional content, shorn of traditional character relationships, and pasted together in reverse order. What remains (a lot) is 90 minutes of ersatz psychodrama that flip-flops the protagonists' emotions, the concept of the dramatic narrative, and traditional notions of romance, nostalgia, friendship and adultery...
...would be jettisoned, and tax rates would be lowered sharply. Where there are now 16 tax brackets ranging up to 50%, the major congressional plans suggest three at most, with the highest at 30%. The Treasury report, which will be given to the President next month, is expected to lean toward some such modified flat tax. Like most of the proposals, the Treasury plan presumably will be "revenue neutral"; it will net the Government the same amount of money as does the existing tax. Reagan recently repeated his campaign pledge that tax reform would be used as a disguised...
...work reminds us what a recent invention the idea that "animals are only human" really is. His animals are always presented in the full "otherness" of their animal nature. He kept to this even when painting that traditional focus of woozy emotion, the dog. Stubbs rendered the lean ferocity of the staghound, or the compact, questing efficiency of the foxhound, with perfect respect for their actual being as creatures in their own world. Even when he did pets-as in Fino and Tiny, circa 1791, which is dominated by a superbly rhythmical profile of the Prince of Wales' black...
...into a pair of supple, bulging rectangles-no angular severity for Aalto. The continuous seat and back, like a toboggan doing gymnastics, is a sheet of birch plywood bent 110° in the middle and rolled at each end. It is a perfect conceit of a chair, at once lean and voluptuous. It is also reasonably accommodating to human beings: the scrolls are functional flourishes, each a great wooden spring. In this, more than in any other piece, Aalto's devotion to wood is its saving grace, for even lacquered red, the birch makes the chair seem domestic...