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...Symphony No. 28 have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca da Rimini-than he is with the classical repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial at Symphony | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...football team goes for meat and potatoes and anything else they can get their hands on. The women's basketball team is know for its predilection for Cahaly's ice cream. And the lithe, lean and weight-conscious members of the women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Rosovsky to 'Touch Down' at Alma Mater | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...good news came in the long, lean form of Schuler's roomate, junior Andrew Regan, whose time of 25:58 in the J.V. race would have placed him among the varsity's top five runners. Regan, who has been running inconsistently all year, was placed on the J.V. because each team can only enter nine runners in the varsity event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Cross Country Team Gains Seventh at Heptagonals | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...Manhattan restaurant, a round, balding actor-playwright named Wallace Shawn sits down to dinner with a lean, overarticulate theatrical director named André Gregory. The friends have not seen one another for some years mostly because Gregory has spent that time searching the world for transcendental experiences. He has been to adult play groups in Poland, Scotland, Tibet, the Sahara-and Montauk Point. It is a measure of what is wrong with this movie (and maybe with the culture of the '80s) that neither man sees anything funny about the intrusion of that last prosaic place on this otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Bore | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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