Word: slenderly
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...than a symbolic gesture. The tougher test for Democrats will be getting the same measures through the Senate, where the incoming majority leader, Harry Reid, will have only a one-vote majority and the Republicans will have the procedural power to gum up his agenda. Reid discovered just how slender his majority will be when South Dakota Democrat Sen. Tim Johnson was rushed to the hospital on Dec. 13 with a brain hemorrhage. (He remains in critical condition...
...Johannes Brahms’ “Double Concerto in A minor,” a concerto for violin and cello soloists that is considered one of the composer’s greatest masterpieces. The twin guest performers took to the stage for this number. The Bruskins are slender brunettes distinguishable only by the size of their instruments, violin and cello respectively. The three movements of the concerto, Allegro, Andante, and Vivace non Troppo, were played with great fluidity by the orchestra, providing a backdrop to showcase the soloists’ talents.Allegro, the first movement of the concerto, featured...
...Almodvar sounds--as he admits he does--"feelthy" when he discusses Cruz's physicality, "those eyes, her beautiful teets," she doesn't mind, since he has given the slender actress the weightiest role of her career (and also maybe because somehow it doesn't seem as feelthy coming from a gay guy). The Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death...
Still, many doctors, like Binckley's, fail to spot the potentially fatal problem in an older person because they're not looking for it. And in a country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...
Oliver O?Grady is a slender, soft-spoken man wandering around Dublin in his windbreaker, the very picture of a retiree living on a modestly fixed income with, perhaps, not quite enough useful activity to occupy an intelligent and still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...