Word: slenderly
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...dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock me all night long." Then slowly the lead guitar begins to mold the frantic throbbing sound...
...Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After a brief...
...burden of the tale is the usual pursuit and chase. What gives the slender story distinction is its unusual style and attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...
...certainly aggravate French industry's already tight profit squeeze. The workers were largely justified in their demands, since their wages lag behind those in every other Common Market country except Italy. But despite its relatively low payrolls, French industry, plagued by inefficiencies in production and distribution, has yielded slender profit margins. State-owned Renault, for example, earns less than a 1% return on sales, compared with 5% for West Germany's Volkswagen. Compagnie Francaise des Petroles works on a 4.5% profit margin v. 8.6% for Royal Dutch/Shell...
...like birds with golden wings the measured bell notes fly outward and upward, passing with clear and faint regret the ultimate slender rush of cross and spire; and how like the plummet lark the echo, singing, falls...