Word: slenderness
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...Slender Thread. At the Crisis Clinic, a suicide-prevention center in Seattle, a student volunteer (Sidney Poitier) embarks upon a life-or-death telephone conversation with an unhappy young matron (Anne Bancroft) who has locked herself in a motel room and taken an overdose of barbiturates. "What happened?" he asks. "Nothing, really," she answers helplessly. "I just didn't have anything...
...that her husband (Steven Hill) rejected her when he discovered that he was not the father of their son. Awash in self-pity, she wanders down to the shore and demonstrates her love of life by buying brandy for a sick bird. By the time the bird dies, Slender Thread has been holding up the line far too long for a film that has nothing on its mind but a sob story...
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. In the first book of poems that she has published since 1954, a fine but unprolific poet presents a slender sampling of superb descriptive verse...
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. In the first book of poems that she has published since 1954, a fine but unprolific poet presents a slender sampling of superb descriptive verse...
...Slender Successor. As Abdullah wished, the Council of Ministers quickly proclaimed his brother, Premier Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, as Kuwait's new Emir. Like his brother, Sabah is a kind and conservative aristocrat, and a devoutly religious nondrinker. The resemblance ends there. Abdullah was tall and portly, and had a commanding, fatherly presence. Sabah is short (5 ft. 5 in.), slender, and a good deal less commanding. "Sabah is quietly weak." said one Kuwaiti official, "while Abdullah was quietly strong...