Word: slimming
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...Soviet energy blackmail and that gas sales will give the Soviets billions in hard cash that they can use to speed their military buildup. The release of Walesa would not change these strategic calculations. It has become increasingly clear that Washington's hopes of blocking the pipeline were slim. At most, American sanctions might delay construction, and that hardly seemed worth the cost in European ill-will. The White House clearly underestimated the depth of European resentment, despite warnings from, among others, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig (the pipeline furor played no small part in his abrupt resignation...
...chances for peace appear slim...
...painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of fascinating people. Randall Jarrell visited, slim, elegantly dressed, talking like a hillbilly; he twanged out such expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that he had invited T.S. Eliot...
King relates his backstage odyssey in the voice of vintage Slim Pickens. When Songwriter Carol Hall and aspiring Director Peter Masterson, both fellow Texans, want to turn his story of the "Chicken Ranch"-a LaGrange, Texas, bordello closed by politicos-into a musical comedy, the financially troubled journalist promises himself to do "big work." But, as he admits, "whether a musical about a whorehouse made the weight" is debatable...
...Hawthorne's eerie, ambiguous short fiction can be tucked into a purse or briefcase. Harriet Beecher Stowe never looked better, nor did Uncle Tom's Cabin, the melodramatic novel that abetted a war. That is not a bad beginning for a publishing project resting on a slim but worthwhile hope: that the writers who helped define this nation can some day be given a comfortable and permanent home...