Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rooms of Congress. Though the legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious smoke," he declares...
...fiftyish partner in a prestigious New York City law firm. The chief strength of his mystery Murder for Lunch (Simon & Schuster; 268 pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners near retirement and their power-hungry successors...
...breath around pitchers, especially young fastball pitchers." And yet, says Mets Trainer Steve Garland, "of all the pitchers we have, Dwight's the one I least expect to get hurt." His motion is flexible and his fundamentals flowing; the really heavy work falls to his legs, which are as thick as the rest of him is lithe. "Some pitchers who are overpowering," Tom Seaver says, "you can see the clock is ticking down on them. They just have terrible fundamentals. Gary Nolan, Don Gullett, Mark Fidrych, there's a whole list. Gooden's mechanics look outstanding: I figure...
Like many modern and postmodern choreographers, Morris also dances with his company. He is a riveting performer, with a delicate, Chaplinesque face atop a strong, bulbous body. For a while last year he wore his hair in a thick mass of long black curls that would have done credit to a baroque grandee. In motion he radiates amplitude verging on excess. In One Charming Night, a dance set to four Purcell songs, he presents his own outrageously funny version of the old warhorse Le Spectre de la Rose, leaping and swooping with abandoned ardor around his seated beloved (Teri Weksler...
...terra incognita, the work of a mapmaker's imagination. Now it is the turn of writers to define its contours. The latest lyricist is Journalist Barry Lopez. "Much of the tundra," he notes, "appears to be treeless when, in many places, it is actually covered with trees--a thick matting of short, ancient willows and birches. You realize suddenly that you are wandering around on top of a forest." Icebergs the size of Cleveland drift through the dark waters, and sulfur butterflies mysteriously rise in the short, delirious summer. Mirages provide a weird history and geography: "A Swedish explorer...