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Nurses and pajama-clad patients jammed the east windows of Stillman Infirmary, phase II construction workers suspended riveting and leaned from beams, six young men hoisted themselves onto a Phillips Book Store ledge, one dungareed undergraduate swayed precariously in the slender branches of Holyoke Street's lone sapling...
What makes for a successful political fund-raising dinner? According to Sidney Captain, Republican finance chairman in Baltimore County, Md., and one of the G.O.P.'s most experienced banqueteers, the answer is beef, booze and "hostesses-make them slender and pretty." How to make a form letter appear to be personally signed? Well, there is an offset process that produces smudgeable signatures that look exactly as if they had been written in blue...
...takes a while to realize how good this movie is. The story is slender, and if you've something else on your mind it won't hold your interest. The photography is skillful but never stunning. The leads hardly seem to be acting at all. In short, the film is so underplayed that it's easy to miss what it's doing, and to classify it as sensitive, restrained, and dull...
Swift's sickness and his satire are examined simultaneously in this slender but consummate volume by Britain's Nigel Dennis. Himself a satirist (Cards of Identity) of no mean attainment, Author Dennis has an acute affinity for his subject. More clearly than any of Swift's latter-day biographers, he looks into the works as into a window on the man, and arranges the facts of his life to explain the state of his soul...
...line is the shortest distance to boredom, Aalto made walls undulate outward to make the whole room a stage for the view, and paneled them like a painter with pale American ash. "Wood," says he, "is close to human experience." Showing off Aalto's virtuosity with wood, these slender columns are made of tiny wooden dowels glued together like bundles of uncooked spaghetti. Another of Aalto's joys is a forest grove of hockey-stick shaped wooden forms that stand alone in an alcove as abstract...