Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped that Joan Rivers will some day lean so far over the mud pit from which she extracts her egregious material that she will topple in and be heard from nevermore...
...Symphony. Winner and still champion, Solti's virtuosic ensemble has been the finest in the U.S. for more than a decade, and was often close to the top under earlier music directors like Fritz Reiner (1953-62). The orchestra's strengths are its burnished brass and taut, lean, precise string section, which give its performances a crispness and vitality that are the despair of its rivals. "I have never had a better-spirited orchestra than this one," says Solti, 70. "If they have a conductor they respect, they will go through hell for him." The Chicago spirit...
Mondale, still searching for his own mandate, remembered sadly that Jimmy Carter never really had one. "His campaign strategy," said Mondale, "was to remain unclear on all the issues. When he got elected, there was no agenda to lean on. Honesty was not enough." Mondale's face tightened a bit. "Let me tell you," he said, "being in the White House without a mandate is pure hell...
OTHER DETAILS are handled in equally open-eyed fashion. Carter Reardon as Cassius, the driving force behind the conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus...
Every Tuesday night a tall, lean man with a white mustache arrives at a darkened and building about a mile northwest of the White House and jams a package into a crack between the glass doors of the entrance. In red crayon the package is marked the New Republic (whose offices are on the second floor), but addressed to no one in particular there; it is signed TRB. The need for secrecy vanished years ago-everyone knows that TRB's Washington column is written by Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-but Strout is a meticulous...