Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Howard Baker. "A smoothy?impressive" but also possessed of a "thick skull...
...what will happen next. So far, the suspense has centered on the efforts of Mrs. Wilkins and Eldest Daughter Marian, 19, to goad Marian's boy friend Tom (with whom she shares a room at the top of the family house) into marriage. "He's a bit thick," says Marian of Tom. "He's not thick," counters her mother. "Otherwise you'd already be married...
...become too heavy at moments like that; he always keeps quite the proper balance, making the ruse believable but also hypocritically funny. He is also a master of the throwaway and can brush off a fast line like a piece of dandruff off his rumpled suit. Confronted with a thick M.A. thesis entitled "Henry James and the Crucified Consciousness," he examines it quickly, notes that it is laid out "like a film scenario," and tosses it aside with the assurance that the author "must be an American." Bates is also able to supply some shading that the writing lacks...
DRAW A LINE. Simple. Any six-year-old can do it. But what line? And where? How in relation to the paper, and to other lines? In printmaking, line is all the artist has to work with--no color, no smudges, no thick oil paints to cover up the mistakes. The artist cuts his line into copper or wood, and there it stays--he can't erase it. The supreme test of an artist's ability comes as he reduces his images to the bare skeletons of form--for a master puts a power into his line that obviates...
...someone else of the times when they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs got filled with...