Word: slenderness
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...tricolored flag of the Communist Provisional Revolutionary Government fluttered over the presidential palace in Saigon. On the open-air terrace of the Continental Hotel, where Americans drank Saigon's infamous "33" beer and vodka tonics and ogled slender Vietnamese girls for more than a decade, Viet Cong troops lounged self-consciously and sipped orange juice. Soviet-built tanks and Chinese-made trucks rumbled through the streets of Saigon to cheers from the populace...
Unstable Focus. Precision is its keynote; but then, Riley is an epitome of that, both in her art and in her rigorous, gently ironic address to life. A slender woman of 44, she lives alone, dividing her time between a house in London's Holland Park, a studio in Cornwall ("Cornwall is full of artists and I manage to avoid nearly all of them," she says with glee), and a second studio in the Vaucluse district of Southern France, not far from the ruins of the Marquis de Sade's castle at La Coste. A second-generation Londoner...
...which, trees and-bushes and the crumpled, black shadow left behind by an unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various plants. Here Russell's sensitive eye has captured a startling range of tones and textures...
...show that everyone had been waiting for did not begin until 8:22. That was when Beverly Sills emerged from the wings at the Metropolitan Opera to join her fellow Greeks in the grim doings of Rossini's The Siege of Corinth. Looking slender and vulnerable in a long blue gown, Sills moved down a small set of stairs, but never had a chance to sing her opening line, "Che mat sento?"(What do I hear?). She knew what she heard-a minute-long roar of welcome not experienced at the Met since the debut of Joan Sutherland...
Mary Lou Fackler--whose real name is America Lou--is a tall, slender blonde with long, straight hair, lots of blue eyeshadow and pink nails that match her pink jersey and the long, gauzy scarf around her neck. Like most of the transfer students I talked to, she says she applied to Radcliffe because of academics. "I always grew up with the idea that this was the best place," she says, a belief reinforced when she noticed that all the psychology textbooks she used at Ohio State University were written by Harvard professors...