Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOOKS . . . ANTS ON THE MELON: 'Ants on the Melon' (Random House; 158 pages; $21) is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime of writing. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Virginia Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant...
...many say it should have the opportunity to form a government, even if they fail. But Congress and the National Front say that more Indians voted for a secular government than for a Hindu one, and there is not much guidance in the constitution. Ironically, there is still a slim possibility that Rao may still run the show, even though his party lost the election." The election, adds Thompson, is not the main concern of most Indians. "They don't think much about it at all. Most contact with the central government is not happy, characterized by bribes and corruption...
Star Trek "communicators" have always been the model for cell phones, but thick batteries and bulky electronics have made truly slim, light portables a distant dream. No more. Below, two new phones that would please Captain Kirk...
...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...
...treadmill, and the slowdown button does not work. The only advising we receive our first year is from a residential proctor (except for those privileged few who have nonresidential academic advisors). The likelihood of sharing any common academic interests with this person is slim. Many of us are therefore left running around frantically in April to assemble the concentration form and plan of study...