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Adler's writing almost makes the book worth-while despite the dearth of plot. The lean prose, pared down to the minimum, has an almost lyrical simpleness. She fills the pages with repetitions and refrains giving the novel its one redeeming feature, its rhythm...
...finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years ago. "He was one of the people who made things work." "He was the man who would sculpt the Pentagon into a mean, but lean, fighting force...
...Scandinavian countries fought off the Soviets and East Germans pretty well in the Nordic sports. Long and lean...
...Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work detail because he was so smart that he would not fall behind in school. His volunteer supervisor, Muharen Corba, 27, was smart too. Good-naturedly he yelled at Mirjan and his friends, who were throwing...
...would take to the woods with pen, ink bottle, and the ledger books borrowed from his father-treasurer of Monterey County-to scribble his first short stories. With a stubbornness that bordered on menace, the "red-faced, blue-eyed giant," as a contemporary described him, toughed out the lean years. He worked as a hand on sugar-beet ranches and wheeled 100-lb. barrows of concrete as a construction worker at Madison Square Garden during a stay in New York City. The publisher of his first novel, Cup of Gold, a lush fantasy about the pirate Henry Morgan, promptly went...