Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than just one more run of a mill where the molds are never broken. Our misconception can perhaps be laid to the advertising industry, which had drummed into us that New! new! new! meant Better! better! better! Now, of course, we are neither new nor better. But we were lean and energetic in those days, and there were lots of us, so we thought we could change the world. Our parents disagreed. Remember the generation gap? (Or was that a clothing store?) We thought our mothers and fathers were materialistic, hypocritical sell-outs. They thought we were spoiled brats. There...
...Arafat the cascade of events felt like an avalanche. By being lax on security issues, he had flirted with trouble, and the extremists had taken advantage. Before the bombing, the U.S. was prepared to lean on Netanyahu to make concessions that would restart negotiations, but now, suddenly, the full weight of American pressure has been shifted onto the Palestinians. In addition, the sting of Israel's reprisals comes at a time when Arafat's government is squirming under revelations of corruption...
...walkout has kept supplies lean and prices strong despite a flood of metal from foreign firms and new mini-mills. Without Wheeling's 2.5 million tons of annual output, giants like the U.S. Steel Group of USX have been coming up with their best earnings gains in years. At U.S. Steel, profits nearly doubled in the first quarter...
...come and gone. For those of you who were lucky enough to catch "Lawrence of Arabia," either in the '60s or last Wednesday, it's surely an unforgettable experience. More than any other film from Hollywood's so-called Golden Age (with the possible exception of "Ben-Hur"), David Lean's epic deserves to be seen on the big screen. The sweeping expanses of sand and sky, desert cliffs, even the startlingly blue ribbon of the Mediterranean Sea; the small, pencil-thin figure of a lone rider, shimmering in the distance like a mirage; the long convoys of Bedouin warriors...
...played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy with his child-stalking evangelist in The Night of the Hunter, he made you lean forward to catch all the nuances of his menace...