Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recollections of passive, exhibitionistic childhood sex. That is virtually all that happens in Gordon Lish's Peru, an incantatory monologue of a novel. Even the murder may not have happened: police and psychiatrists figure nowhere in the narrative, as they would in the aftermath of a crime. Whether this slight, tightly focused book is a confession, a nightmare or a tease, its mesmeric voice requires, and rewards, a close reading...
...latest line from the bank has the Wildcats as the slight favorite. While 166 people have bought Cardinal CDs, 175 fans have put their deposits on the Wildcats...
...been a relaxing evening for Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, 59, and his wife Lisbeth. They had just been to an evening showing of the new Swedish film The Brothers Mozart in a downtown Stockholm cinema and had decided to take a walk afterward. For the slight, hawk-nosed Swedish politician with a ready smile, it had always been a matter of pride that he sometimes permitted himself to wander freely about the capital, unencumbered by the phalanx of bodyguards that protect other European heads of government. As the Palmes walked along Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare...
AARON CARLOS GIVES a lackluster performance as the strong and relatively silent Nick, a problem compounded by his slight build and hennaed hair, which do not fit the image of the All-American middleweight champ on the make. This is disconcerting, but rarely diverts our attention from the drama of George and Martha...
...theory that liquid fuel, leaking unnoticed from the tank, had chilled the nearby booster. He also discovered that the wind on the morning of the launch had been blowing across the cold surface of the tank toward the right booster. As one NASA engineer explained, "Even a slight breeze, wafting over the external tank full of those cryogens (supercold fluids) may have been enough to produce lower temperatures on the right-hand solid rocket booster than on the left...