Word: thicken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...convincing, speaking in a male voice. But the chapters are not merely testimony; the writer's own narration takes over, and memory and present time wash in and out. Now and then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with...
...been floated into position in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Toward the end of the 4,000-mile journey, summer ice and high winds in the Bering Sea became a problem, but the huge plant managed to beat the feared September deadline, when the ice begins to thicken...
...team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...ever-faithful butler when--of all things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears out of thin air to thicken the plot into a London fog of incest, revenge, hidden pasts, family treasures, eccentric old ladies, and crazies of all ages...
...play-within-a-play begins, Spelvin enters dressed in black Renaissance garb, but the setting is a terrace of a posh hotel overlooking the harbor at Nice, and the first lines addressed to him are from Noel Coward's Private Lives. The plots thicken and boil. Beckett's Endgame and Happy Days are intermingled as well. With zany aplomb, Durang combines absurdist juxtapositions of lines and characters in Spelvin's massive identity crisis...