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...reader through a series of crepuscular turns with the smooth efficiency of a Mercedes on a rain-slicked street at night. The quiet operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...
...standard of measurement on the ground that the paper's conservatism predates the arrival of the Reagan crowd ("We're happy to have them in our camp, but we're not in theirs"). For the past 15 years, editorials have been the province of Robert L. Bartley, who is lean, incisive and full of certitude. His combativeness came out in a famously stormy dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers' testy independence did not begin with Bartley: Phillips remembers Bartley's predecessor, Vermont Connecticut Royster, protesting...
...view a little surgical correction as the finishing touch to their efforts at the health club. "These people are in great shape and aware of their diet, yet their faces look older because of sun exposure," observes Dr. Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist. Michael, 46, a lean Manhattan executive typifies the trend. Over the past six months he has undergone a grand-slam rehab: eye lift, face-lift and collagen shots to plump out his facial wrinkles. "I had a body by Michelangelo and face by Goya," he says. "No matter how much exercise I did, the face...
...lean back against the bar, drink in one hand, peanut in the other. Good view of the vast maple dance floor. Impressive crowd for three in the afternoon. Mostly old people. Here and there one partner looks so infirm it must be like dancing with a bedpost, but it doesn't seem to cramp the active one, who twirls like a top, shaking a mean leg in the bargain...
...will receive some 5,000 letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...