Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shaken by a "terrible jolt," says passenger Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists in small boats from the U.S. research center at Palmer Station, a mile away. But the ship began leaking its 250,000 gal. of oil and spilling cargo, including drums of diesel and jet fuel and tanks...
...performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall Duk Kim has wit and charm as Kobart's newly disobedient husband, but in a ghastly miscalculation, his Asian features have been caked with ruddy makeup so thick it resembles house paint. The show, superbly revived in London in 1986, is a souffle that never quite rises at A.C.T. If it has taken the new managers a while to live down Ball's legacy, it may take longer for them to live...
Jeff is an ordinary-looking man with blow-dried hair, a trim mustache, and thick-lensed eyeglasses that make his eyes look constantly startled, like those of the pets he freeze-dries. Most of Jeff's customers are serious about their pets. They have trouble accepting the death of their loved ones -- Jeff calls it "denying the grieving process" -- so they bring them...
...kids' rooms to see if they're hiding drugs. Big businesses could use them to sniff out the desks of employees they suspect are using drugs. That would avoid all those constitutional questions about urine testing and lie detector tests." Jeff's eyes open wide and unblinking behind his thick-lensed glasses. "Whaddaya think...
...worse will be the media, who will be as thick as black flies whenever Bush is in town. The Washington press corps already left its mark on Kennebunkport over Thanksgiving. Roland Drew was talking to a photographer before Bush arrived at the South Congregational Church for Sunday services when a reporter snapped, "Get out of my way!" Says Drew, more in wonder than anger: "No one talks like that around here." Day defended some firewood that two reporters planned to liberate to warm themselves while camped out near the Bush compound. "How do you 'borrow' firewood?" Day asks...