Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sticky day and his t-shirt was wet with sweat. He chose to forego the thick air, so he stayed prone and parched until he felt stiff and starched. Consider the limit as n approaches infinity...if n is infinitely far away, what of 2n? A sticky question, so take instead the limits to growth...when does a less developed country become developed? When does mortality end and force begin? Sketch the graph. Draw the line. Are martyrs altruists or egoistic hedonists at heart? But it all harks back to the distinction between Nazism and Hitlerism--if, in fact...
...MOON over the Mather House courtyard would delight Samuel Beckett as it dodges behind thick black clouds during this outdoor production of his existentialist tour-de-force, Waiting For Godot. By play's end, it nestles out of sight, casting an appropriate bleakness over a wet and shivering audience. The sky matches Beckett's play in its inability to illumine. The stage slipped between Mather House's cement blocks stands bare of even the smallest of miracles. No leaves flutter on the lone tree that cowers behind a tiny desert. A flute echoes as the only sign of regeneration when...
...train at the start of the semester, registering seven to ten miles a day. Kristof found Monday's race fairly enjoyable, especially while passing through Wellesley, where he received ice, oranges and kisses from three Wellesley students. But at the 22-mile mark, Kristof said he "hit a very thick brick wall" that refused to budge throughout the remainder of his 3:22 ordeal. "Until I reached the finish line I didn't know whether I'd make it or not," the Government major said. "I never convinced myself that I wouldn't collapse in the last ten steps." Still...
...national security advisers went over every grim detail of the situation in the Cabinet Room, a startlingly different scene was occurring just outside on the South Lawn. Under the springtime splendor of the cherry blossoms, thousands of youngsters were enjoying the traditional Easter Monday egg rolling. The thick, lightly tinted bulletproof windows of the Cabinet Room could not block out the laughter and the sound of music...
...rare transformation takes place in this remarkable documentary film about the efforts of elderly parents to prepare a middleaged, retarded son for life without them. The first views of Philly, as 52-year-old Philip is called, show a stocky, dull-faced man with an unshaven jaw, thick lips and a gap in his mouth where several front teeth are missing. His speech-grunted single words, short sentences that do little better than repeat what has just been said to him -makes it clear that his intelligence is severely limited. The last look shows the same coarse face, behind which...