Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGES of a ravaged country drift before our eyes via television. Homeless adults confront the remains of shelled-out dwellings, abandoned children wander, uncomprehending and terrified; thick black smoke distorts once beautiful skylines. Such are the results of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a foray that has left the Jewish state seemingly, more isolated than ever before. For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel is the outright initiator of a conflict designed to garner security, not survival...
...second is that of Tom Seaver. Ten years a New York Met, he had been with the team through thick and thin, through two World Series and countless miserable finishes. In 1977, he was traded in mid-season to the Cincinnati Reds. The team unloaded their one superstar for a handful of unknowns because Seaver was demanding a fattened contract. Institutional loyalty was becoming increasingly old-fashioned. The ugly truth was out: Baseball's labor and management were perfectly willing to have money play the major determining factor in the once-pristine sport...
American Bell's first offering will thrust it into the thick of one of the newest and fiercest slugging matches in U.S. business. Using its experience in transmitting human voices long distances over telephone lines, the company wants to do the same thing with business data between computers. It will sell a service called Advanced Information Systems/Net 1 that will, for example, allow a department store's computer to talk back and forth with another machine in a distant supplier's warehouse. The two machines can even be different kinds of equipment. Said AT&T Chairman Charles...
...Marine on leave almost ruined this year's race when he threw a government-issue smoke grenade over the fence with only eight laps to go. It billowed thick green smoke across the track and obscured the vision of the drivers cruising past at 190 miles per hour. Fortunately, the canister fell four feet short of the track and didn't cause a yellow caution flag, which probably would have changed the race's outcome...
There are no big meanings here; no big laughs, for that matter, either. Instead, there is a mild, but admirably stubborn singularity. Gregory's Girl does not offer anything as thick as slice life, just slivers of it, cut thin as smoked Scotch salmon. And tasting just as sweet . - By Richard Schickel