Word: skinnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain to her that she should perhaps no longer dance Kitri in Don Q((uixote)),' Baryshnikov said one day with genuine frustration. 'It happens . . . That's life.' " But to a ballerina, it's death. The still elegant star points rudely to Baryshnikov's young picks, all shorter and skinnier than she. Her verdict: "Chickens." Sighs the boss: "She's one damn tough cookie...
...convenience store, manned by two high school girls, a loud tape deck and the skinnier girl's boyfriend, I asked what I could do to entertain myself for three hours before the train came back...
More recently, attention has focused on blacks' supposedly longer lower legs and skinnier calves, which are said to give blacks an advantage over whites in jumping and sprinting. Most evolutionists dismiss attempts to link race and individual excellence as silly. "The differences between the races are very small," says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "just tiny compared to the variation within races." When specialists compared the legs of Jesse Owens and Frank Wykoff, the leading black and white sprinters of the 1930s, they discovered that Owens' calf muscles more closely resembled the presumed white model, while Wykoff's were...
...Sprouse's work-a lime-green sequined dress with a halter collar could have been filched from Twiggy's attic-but his clothes, as Buyer Jean Rosenberg of Henri Bendel in New York City points out, "are not '60s redos. Those clothes were skimpier and skinnier." Sprouse's lines tend to be a little more careful and deliberate, even sculpted, and a lot of his wizardry comes in combinations, like throwing a man-size coat over a mini. Says Pat Henderson of Bergdorf Goodman: "I've got one of his bright pink wool tank dresses...
...read as an allegory of Communist rule. Who but Stalin, for example, might have justified a famine in the words attributed to an apologist for Haile Selassie: "Between you and me-it is not bad for national order and a sense of national humility that the subjects be rendered skinnier, thinned down a bit. . . The usefulness of going hungry is that a hungry man thinks only of bread . . . One should always beware of those who have a bit, because they are the worst, they are the greediest, it is they who push upward...