Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yielded precious few leads. Items: > The police found five automobiles used by the terrorists. Two cars had been left at the scene. A Fiat 132 that carried Moro away was found the same day half a mile away, and two more getaway cars turned up on the same quiet, narrow street. Investigators theorize that the vehicles were planted there as decoys designed to lead police to concentrate their search in the wrong neighborhood...
...fault lies not with Hoffman's performance, but with the movie's narrow, spartan script. The screenwriters are so eager to avoid sentimentality that they turn journalistic objectivity into a form of dramatic Novocain. As we watch Burglar Max Dembo doggedly pursue his career of luckless crime, it is impossible to feel anything but numbness. Apparently the writers believe it is enough to demonstrate that Max is a classic recidivist, trapped forever in a cycle of antisocial behavior, but they can't get off so easily. A character as alienated as Max, however realistically drawn, becomes compelling...
With only a couple more birthdays between me and 50, I find little cause for rejoicing in your assurance that it is now all right to be 30. Neither am I consoled to learn that my type of beauty ("narrow shoulders, small breasts, large belly . . .") went out in the 14th century...
...home-and-away series with the Lowell University "B" team. The Classics edged their way to a set of narrow victories...
...drivers are a unique breed. They race along Fifth and Sixth Avenues like they were the Indianapolis Speedway, and they habitually try to squeeze through spaces that are too narrow for even a bicycle to navigate. New York City lights are synchronized so that if your timing is right, you can drive for fifty or sixty blocks without hitting a red light. Cabbies always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace...