Word: slenderness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...
...attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...
...With a slender volume of 27 verses, titled Love Poems (World; $2.50) and dedicated cryptically to "S* and the search," sometime Actress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, officially blossomed as a sometime (i.e., printed) poetess. Sample titles from her "diary of feelings": my heart is a wild wave, Snow tenderly in city dawn, honey bees in our eaves, happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava...
Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
...Whitey" and "Brownie" Reid are as different as the colors of their nicknames. Slender, sandy-haired Whitey (Yale '36) is a quiet, thoughtful ex-Navy aviator; he has been editor for the past eight years. Stocky, dark-haired Brownie (yale '49) is a driving, fast-talking ex-paratrooper; he has worked in a variety of jobs, mostly on the business side. For years Trib staffers have tried to guess which one-Whitey or Brownie-would end up as boss. Last week Helen Reid ended the guessing game...