Word: slighter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robbins has done this with great success once before, in his 1983 hit, Glass Pieces. That ballet was a boldly theatrical vision of city life--densely populated, aggressive, peremptory, endlessly churning. Because their music is superficially quite similar, the two works are bound to be compared. Eight Lines is slighter and more evanescent but it is also more intimate and charming, and it is ravishing to look...
...still one of the American theater's most mysteriously buried treasures, Linney, who also teaches writing, is obviously speaking from the heart here. Laughing Stock's other short plays are slighter: an anecdote about death and telephones and a shaggy-dog story about an old woman's discovery that her 70-year marriage was founded on a sly joke. But they too are marked by Linney's singular talent for stating wild ideas with high, simplifying intelligence and for drawing deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line is misplaced or wasted...
...slumped over, feeling awful. They're carrying the old male role around on their backs, the authoritarian provider, but it doesn't work any more. They've got female bosses now, and their wives and kids are rebelling." D'Aguanno, 37, a tall man, somewhat slighter than Drolette and no fan of Hollywood's Duke, says they have all noticed that the disarmament movement, to pick an example, is "about two-thirds women, which is fine"-he says this in the way people speak when they mean something is not fine-"and the rest...
They present almost as stark a contrast as Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello and at times can be just as funny. One is tall, blonde and a jokester, the other is short, slighter of build, with reddish hair, and has a more serious and polite manner...
...vanilla suit and matching boots, he moved with the assurance of an athlete whose daily regimen includes whole-grain bread, no sugar, a two-hour workout and 45 daily vitamins. At 5 ft. 10 in. and 165 Ibs., Stallone appears slighter in person than he does on the screen. But on the slender legs of a runner resides the torso of Charles Atlas. His face is healthily gaunt: rosy but hollow cheeks guard the languid brown eyes. When the yellow cloth fell from the 8½-ft, $70,000 movie-prop bronze statue, Stallone gazed upon his features...