Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they are a lot less revealing than a pair of stretch jeans...
...great intellectual flowering of New England in the 19th century (Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...
...chair the size of a Mazda. How about a wax representation of a man with three eyes? Don't knock it til you've seen it, or the shrunken heads, either. While you're in the area, check out Fort Castillo a quizzical structure with eight-foot thick walls made out of coquina shells...
...village, guerrilla units including armed women practiced weapons drill near thick-walled homes with thatched and orange tile roofs that had been smashed by government forces. The guerrillas had organized patrols of young boys, some under the age often, to act as scouts and runners for their parents. The adults carried a motley array of weaponry, chiefly old carbines and a few automatic rifles...
...early as the 6th century, in the sub-Sahara, Moorish merchants routinely traded salt ounce for ounce for gold. In Abyssinia, slabs of rock salt, called 'amôlés, became coin of the realm. Each one was about ten inches long and two inches thick. Cakes of salt were also used as money in other areas of central Africa...