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...hardness. His nose is bony and defined with a hook that is faintly fierce. His mouth, unlike Jimmy Carter's, does not rest in a smile. Relaxed, it is the mouth of a tennis player who is psyched up and poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite quips over the heads of his listeners and so appreciates precision of language that he once signed a well-written petition for Soviet Jews, 'as much for the syntax as the substance...
Hard-drinking and imperious (he once stoned an offending electric sign because it ruined his view), Aalto blazed into prominence in the 1930s. His first celebrated works were a library in Viipuri and a tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio. Their design was lean, clean, direct and even witty; in Aalto's hands, the meeting of an undulating ceiling and a wall could result in a line as playful and zesty as a Miro sketch...
...most responsible for creating this monster is Jerry Jeff Walker, though God knows he probably didn't mean to. He's also changed a lot since then. He's no longer the grubby, lean desperado, looking like he'd like to hop the next train to Juarez. He's had a couple of successful albums, as many playing dates as he wants--even in places as distant and mysterious as Cambridge, Massachusetts--and everyone in the country music industry knows who he is. If he gets less attention than some of the latecomers, he still gets a lot, especially back...
...negotiations-cannot convincingly argue that any other union should accept a smaller one. Instead, the message of the Teamsters settlement is just the reverse: the Administration does not want any long strikes disrupting the recovery in an election year and is prepared to countenance-or maybe even lean on employers to accept-wage and benefit boosts averaging 10% or even 11% a year, if that should be the price of peace. That is a policy that may well cost the nation dear...
...action was so common and in the eyes of many so legitimate as to constitute, by 1776, a conventional method of political action. The Boston Tea Party was hardly an isolated case: the mob also rioted to keep food from being shipped out of the colony during lean times, to prevent men from being impressed into the British navy, and to halt the collection of unpopular customs duties. The men who made up these mobs were, as likely as not, also the men to be found sitting in New England town meetings and on local juries...