Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the incidence of date rape is high, few woman--about 4 percent--report the attack. They know that the chances of convicting a date rapist are slim, and that in order to prosecute they will have to undergo grueling cross-examination by police and lawyers...
...family's farm in Correze, a picturesque but poor district in south-central France. It was there that he developed the easygoing rapport with the common people that allowed him to run for and win his first elected position, a district assembly seat, in 1967. Even today, the tall, slim Chirac is famous in the district for his prodigious memory for the names and family histories of his constituents--and for his gargantuan appetite...
What does threaten to turn our gaze from the central action between host and hostess is the shining performance of Jane Loranger. Loranger plays Honey not merely as a drab, "slim-hipped" hanger onto Nick, but as a mostly-clueless waif with occasional but unspoken real glimmers of insight. She delivers lines like "Oh yes, [Nick] has a very firm body" deadpan, and "I don't want any children, I don't want any hurt" with a hysterical intensity that brings on the shivers...
Namely, second. With only a slim chance of winning...
...makers of Delta Force picked an actual event and then selected an Amercian reaction to it which they felt was more appropriate than the actual reaction. I was forced to decide whether this reaction was actually superior. The success of an actual Delta Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration of how low the movie industry can sink...