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...professors have also questioned his legal distinction, Louis H. Pollack, dean of the Yale Law School, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Carswell appeared to possess "more slender credentials than any nominee in this century...
...Despite slender budgets, the new agencies produce eye-catching graphics and pungent copy. For example, a recent ad for Alfa Romeo by the French subsidiary of London's Colman, Prentis & Varley shows an ignition key stuck in a succulent red apple under the single word "Temptation." A breezy approach to sex and nudity is another hallmark of the New Wave. A lingerie ad in Elle, the French magazine, shows a couple in bed. "How was I?" she asks, slipping on her brassiere. "I love you," he replies, "and your Aubade...
...prominent Chinese medical technique not used in the West is acupuncture, which cures by insertion of slender needles at points of the body, which do not bear any anatomical relation to the diseased organ...
...Slender Credentials. A more troublesome aspect of Carswell's career is his lack of distinction on the federal bench. Even one of his defenders, Florida State University's law school dean, Joshua Morse, admits: "I cannot think of a single thing of Judge Carswell's that I am familiar with." No one can cite any contribution by Carswell to judicial literature. Harvard Law Dean Derek C. Bok, seeking gentle words, says that "the public record of Judge Carswell's career and accomplishments clearly does not place him within even an ample list of the nation...
...farm, and Japan still had to import rice; today, as a result of agricultural advances, only 18% of the Japanese people are needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with 50% of the population crammed into the corridor, it is a smog-covered slurb...