Word: slight
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...could have put that behind us and by now become a normal nation with prissy values with humanistic neighborly relations with Iraq and Egypt, and with a slight criminal record--just like everybody else...What's so terrible about being a civilized people, respectable, with a slight criminal past...
...story, my fictional country exist, like myself, at a slight angle to reality." The personal reference needs an explanation, and Rushdie later offers one: "I am an emigrant from one country (India) and a newcomer in two (England, where I live, and Pakistan, to which my family moved against my will)." Shame is a looking-glass fable about a country that was actually made up, arbitrarily sundered from India in 1947, written by a native son who has never called the place his home...
...takes place in the one room. Bruhl's study, and the actors move well on the dining hall stage. Lowell House's choice of Deathtrap was a good one. The local production surpasses the Hollywood version which had trouble trying to enlarge the scope of the action. The only slight drawback is that because dead people tend to lie on the floor, people sitting in the back sometimes have trouble seeing what they are doing...
...chief offered to lower the number of Soviet SS-20s from the current level of 243 to "about 140." Since each of the SS-20s is equipped with three warheads, the total figure would closely match the 434 warheads in the French and British arsenals. The offer represented a slight improvement on a December 1982 Soviet proposal to reduce the number of SS-20s to 162. However, SS-20 warheads are independently targetable-the British and French weapons are not-and are less vulnerable to attack...
Chandrasekhar, who got word of the award on his birthday, is a slight, 5-ft. 6-in. scholar with a shy manner, a preference for black suits and a love of Tolstoy, Mozart and Beethoven. Born in Lahore, then part of India, to a prominent Hindu family (his physicist uncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, won a Nobel in 1930), Chandra, as he is called by physicists everywhere, began the work for which he was cited more than a half-century ago. In 1930, when he was only 19 years old, he whiled away the long shipboard hours...