Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quaint as that query may sound to an American, the impending shutdown of the venerable Times and Sunday Times of London is no footling affair to an Englishman. The gloom among Britain's Establishment could be as thick as suet pudding if the Times (circ. 293,000)-the nation's newspaper of record and the favorite forum of impassioned letter writers -suspends publication this week, as now seems likely. Equally wretched will be the 1.4 million readers who look to the Sunday Times for its weekly compendium of news coverage and lively analysis...
...sports section is almost all new and thick with detail...
...left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew the fog had come in as thick as pea soup and that it was impossible to get home; but to the end of time her reputation will suffer for the experience...
Some of Munch's paintings - notably The Scream, 1893, with its genderless homunculus squalling in loneliness on a bridge against the thick ropy sky of evening-are among the most reproduced images in early modern art. Yet Munch's major paintings are not well known here in the original because most of his best work stayed in Norway, distributed among several museums. The National Gallery's show, which will go to no other museum, has 245 paintings, prints and drawings on loan from Norwegian collections; it is the most complete Munch exhibition ever held...
...terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...