Word: slim
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...mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...thousands who breathed new life into a haunted party to the athletes who stayed focused amid bomb threats in a city that had waited forever to show off the New South (a phrase coined in 1886). As the Centennial Games came to an end, it seemed as if a slim hope had gone 15 rounds with hard reality and emerged bloodied but just ahead on points. Atlanta had faced its share of biblical afflictions--rain and thunder, explosions far and near, a plague of journalists and the smell of lucre. Yet the stars raved about the crowds as much...
...letter, Del Tredici called the tree a "truly magnificent specimen" and wrote that the chances of it surviving transplantation were slim...
ATLANTA: The numbers are starting to come in, and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is breathing a collective sigh of relief with the news that the games will probably turn a slim profit. Financed almost entirely through private sponsorship, the games had come under enough fire for their crass commercialism that the IOC decided to recommend that future games be financed by a mixture of public and private funds. In Atlanta, the games had almost no public guarantees, meaning that ACOG would be responsible for any shortfall. After optimistically predicting large profits in the months before the games...
Unfortunately, this powerful time-saving technique is restricted to large lecture classes that videotape their lectures. If you take classes in the visual and environmental studies, hopes of using this technique are relatively slim, but pre-meds enrolled in Chem 5/7 or Biological Sciences 1/2 can save a lot of time in this easy 4 step process: a) skip lecture; b) check out the video from Cabot Library; c) press "play" and "ffwd" at the same time; d) take notes as described in the Note-Taking section. "But Alex," you are probably saying, "if I press "play" and "ffwd...