Word: leans
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...lean blond youth raised a bottle high, sipped of the red wine laced with acid, and said dreamily: "Canceled? We're not canceled. This time the chime is in rhyme, the sounds are all around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...
...world. When she told him she never wanted to get to be like him, he replied: "Nobody wants to, but you will." It is a judgment against which Joan is still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring-into-the-void depressions. In her lean, elliptical prose, she always writes about the thunderous passage of emotion through the brain, of battles lost for love or understanding, of desertion and disillusionment-the realm of psychic pain...
...large," Lifton said. "as a society we really haven't developed a more reasoned use of the bomb and nuclear weapons. We continue to lean on the bomb and build an illusion of security around it-when, in fact, its existence and the possession of the bomb is an increased danger for the possessor and for the rest of the world...
...watch a needle suck "its gonna be all right, scoo-be-doo-dah" out of a groove labeled, "Revolution." In the good old days you could be exploited by Jerry Lewis for ?.75. You could buy that soothing album by your favorite folk-singer for $2.50, lean back, and soak in "We Shall Overcome...
...were needed - for mindless bloodshed. In the Protestant working-class areas, houses and store fronts sported Union Jacks, freshly painted shields bearing the up raised Red Hand of Ulster and tacky portraits of "King Billy" of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. On DESMOND BALL, a lean, tough machinery repairman who seems older than his 22 years, lives at the Protestant edge of the "peace line." Ball and his wife Maureen, 20, moved into his three-story brick house at No.78 Percy Street after last summer's riots - when it be came available rather suddenly. A gang...