Word: slenderness
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...victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope, positioning it side-by-side with one of the bullets fired by the sniper. Then he rotates the slugs 360°, turning them back and forth like paired dancers beneath his eyepiece. After a long study, he pushes away from the table. It will...
...Felicia Holden as a project manager matched that of her employer, a New York City Internet-design and architecture company. When the call came last summer, "it was devastating," she says. Still, the experience proved invaluable--mainly as material for her first stand-up comedy act. Soon the slender thirtysomething was pursuing a lifelong ambition, cracking jokes in her Georgia twang before notoriously unforgiving audiences at comedy clubs around the city. "I felt at that point that I had nothing to lose...
...every time she put food in her mouth. Some mornings she was unable even to brush her teeth without thinking she would vomit. About the only thing she could force down was Carnation Instant Breakfast--the same thing she gave Hilary after the orthodontist tightened her braces. Ginny was slender to begin with from years of power walking, but now the weight was melting off her twiggy body. By December she had lost 29 lbs. In hopes that humor might defuse some of the pain, friends started calling her the "Incredible Shrinking Woman." Sanderson took a somewhat sterner approach...
...best way to catch the Hives is in concert. Pelle, who has the slender androgynous look of the young Mick Jagger, oozes star power, while Nicholaus dances like a madman and plays flawless guitar. Their stage banter is hysterical. Pelle cranks up his Swedish accent to explain to the audience why the Hives' sets are so short: "We have been told by the government of the U.S.A. that we cannot play for more than 45 minutes. It would be dangerous to the youth." After a particularly slick guitar performance, Nicholaus grabs the mike and, in full-on Swedish tourist mode...
Gomes, originally from Plymouth and the former assistant director of the Man and Woman of the Year Awards, portrayed flamboyant characters in several campus plays. In Troilus and Cressida he, in leather pants and bare chest, dry-humped a slender blond man. He was active in gay social life at Harvard and Boston and has told numerous friends that his uncle was Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, though the two are not relatives...