Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...
...story line, but wait a second, here's the hook: father, son and grandson are played by three generations of Mitchums. Robert, 67, Christopher, 40, and Bentley, 18. Well, anyway, CBS liked the idea, and a TV movie, Promises to Keep, is set for the fall. Maybe blood is thicker than conversation. Grandpa Mitchum's remarks on how it was to work with family ("fine"), interest- ing points about the film ("We did it locally") and Bentley's screen debut ("He did well enough") are, to say the least, laconic. Christopher has played supporting roles in a few movies. Bentley...
...watch passively as the line grows thicker rather than longer. You glare at the stream of wanderers who scout the line for a friend to cut in front of. You consider going up to cut yourself, but fear the doors will open soon-and the crowd at the front of the "line" is 20 people across...
...German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab of limewood not much thicker than a plank--with the result that everything stands up and out, as if in fright--got transferred to Beckmann's argument with the flat canvas. Even the gestures are religious. Thus the showing of outstretched palms, Beckmann's favorite sign for pathos and surrender, comes from the traditional figure...
...Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed. And as if that were not enough, Speaker Tip O'Neill advised Mondale not to be such a nice guy and to lay it on Reagan even thicker, which could mean the level of political bilge will rise higher...