Word: leans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ridden boulevards, the pair find themselves suspended in a world more appropriate to the match-making machinations of Maurice Chevalier in Gigi than to the high tech high punk goings-on of the film's other characters. Hawkins carries a ruffled parasol, and young Jules, wearing the kind of lean and hungry look that only a European can muster, follows a few steps behind her. Sati (of course) comes rolling ever so slowly off the soundtrack...
...that the last three seasons in Columbia football have been the only lean years is not really a fair statement. At Columbia, they've been enduring the lean years-ever since the first time the Lions touched pigskin...
...Gang has definitely evolved over the last few years--their funky Europop of today contrasted by the lean, spare minimalists post punk of their first. "Entertainment," a success of a different sort from their latest. Yet there are constants, most of which derive from the exquisite musicianship of the band members. This level of musicianship along with an admirable earnestness and intensity of purpose no matter what you may think of its politics--has raised the Gang above the trendy, and most irrelevant British punk-funk scene...
DIED. Dave Garroway, 69, hornrimmed, bow-tied founding host of NBC's Today show; by his own hand (shotgun); in Swarthmore, Pa. Today's producers were looking for a dynamic personality in 1952 until Garroway sold them on "a lean-against-the-ladder, go-to-sleep-standingup guy like me." Of his style, he once said, "I talk right to the camera as if it were the one other single person who is here with me." He mixed movie and book reviews with political reports, as well as off-hand comments on personal passions such as sports cars...
...carry it through the lean years, J.P.L. has been looking for new ways to employ its engineering talents, including development of fuel-efficient vehicles, solar power and improved biomedical instrumentation. But the most dramatic change has been J.P.L.'s increasing militarization. Much of the work involves secret research for the Air Force on new gadgetry like satellites that can operate without direct guidance from the ground, an enormous asset in possible space wars, when instant responses may mean life or death for a piece of orbiting hardware...