Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reading this slight, elegant book is a bit like having a guided tour through an album of family snapshots. There, notes your cicerone, is Great-Great-Uncle George, who built that incredible castle in North Carolina. Here is Great-Aunt Adele, blithe and beautiful, seated next to her sad cousin Consuelo -- she had to marry a duke, you know...
...landscape of Mars. The gloves are equipped with magnetic position trackers and fiber-optic sensors that telegraph every movement of the hand directly to the machine. The helmet is equipped with a pair of stereoscopic TV projectors, one for each eye, that are carefully coordinated so that a slight turn of the head to the right will shift the entire synthetic world to the left...
...almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak as a mouthy matriarch and Bob Burrus as her sly brother-in-law. The other play of promise, Charlene Redick's slight but touching Autumn Elegy, depicts a man long withdrawn from the world and his protective wife, now fatally...
Each meal has its own guidelines, she adds. The dinner menu, for example, always has two hot entrees, two vegetables and a starch. Each kitchen is given the exact same recipes, Hennessey says, but there may be slight differences in the ways the food is prepared...
...Cambridge to greet Harvard on its return from its spring trip, only to be soundly thrashed yet again, 9-0, at the Palmer Dixon Courts. The Crimson was playing without the services of its top two players, Roger Berry and Mike Zimmerman, who were both resting with slight injuries sustained during the trip...