Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pickings are slim for would-be U.S. producers, the diet is considerably more nourishing for audiences. Stargazers can see Eartha Kitt in a revamped version of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies, Wendy Hiller aglow in the American comedy Driving Miss Daisy and, starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West...
...compiling of statistics has fallen from $1.7 billion in 1980 to $1.6 billion in 1987, even though the cost of gathering data has gone up. The Administration wants more money for the job, but as Congress struggles to shrink the budget deficit by cutting spending, the chances seem slim that something as unglamorous as statistics will survive...
...slim novel Capote produced at 23 was Other Voices, Other Rooms, which told of the painful growing up of a sensitive Southern child named Joel Knox, widely assumed to be a stand-in for the author. It was well written and convincingly atmospheric, with no word out of place. But what made Other Voices a sensation was an extravagantly campy photo of Capote on the dust jacket, reclining on a couch, wearing bangs and a look of degenerate satiation. His sexual orientation could not have been clearer if he had held a rose between his teeth...
...Tonight show and of lunching with the glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point -- "SO educational," he insisted...
...trouble was, he would say anything. "He delighted in turbulence," writes Clarke. "When none existed, he would stir it up." Clarke quotes Slim Keith's recollection that "he would invent something out of whole cloth, an absolute fabrication, and say, 'Did you know that X is having a walk-out with Y?' I would say, 'Oh, Truman, for God's sake! That's ridiculous!' Then I began to think about it more and wondered: is it that ridiculous? And something usually did come of his invention . . . he could cause a lot of trouble...