Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early to predict, however, whether this rare elixir (called leptin, after the Greek leptos, meaning slender) will be a stunning pharmaceutical success or just another "miracle" cure that never pans out. Even if all goes well, it could be five to 10 years before leptin is approved for human use. Researchers must first demonstrate that leptin benefits people as well as rodents and that it causes no serious side effects...
...above his waist." Noble, who had one foot in the quicksand-like bog himself, managed after a 10-minute struggle to extricate Bush with the help of Secret Service man Ed Flynn. "It was a hard pull," says Noble, placing blame on the bog, not the slender ex-President. Shaken but undeterred, Bush slipped on new trousers, borrowed socks and pressed on with the day's fishing...
...transition to land was likely a gradual affair involving multiple stages of evolutionary change. The skeletons of fish, with their slender bones arrayed all in a row, are clearly ill suited for walking and running. Moreover, the muscles of fish are designed to deliver power in all the wrong places. "Think about tucking into a tetrapod [a cow, for instance] for Sunday lunch," says Coates. "The best cuts are the thighs and shoulders, the muscle motors that drive these animals along. In a fish these motors are pathetic, tiny things. It's the back and tail muscles that propel...
Among the ballerinas, Yulia Makhalina seems to have pride of place, having danced the first performance of both Swan Lake and Cinderella. She is the latest exemplar of a type of dancer Vinogradov likes: tall, elegantly slender, chilly and lacking the turned-out hip position most classical dancers have. Makhalina will remind audiences of Galina Mezentseva, the director's beautiful but glacial favorite in the '80s. Younger ballerinas are developing, especially the limpid Zhanna Ayupova, who redeems Cinderella with a shy, radiant, technically assured performance in the lead role...
...Anna Karenina, for example. But Tyler (whose novels include The Accidental Tourist and Morgan's Passing) again blesses her subject with a comic sensibility. The world of Ladder of Years is not one where acts produce serious moral consequences. Delia reads of her disappearance in the newspaper: "A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light-brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and weighs either 90 or 110 pounds." Her understandable response: "For heaven's sake, hadn't anyone in her family ever looked at her?" And it doesn't take long before Delia...