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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably a good bet that this young Crimson squad--although it will lose senior starters Linda Runyon, Bambi Taylor, Anne Kelly and Alicia Clifton--will be in the thick of the Ivy race next year...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Stickwomen Successful Despite 3-8-4 Season Mark | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

George's other responsibility is his late parents' retirement home in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall. He settles there because he has nowhere else to go, but he looks seaward and makes odious comparisons: "In Bom Porto, the Atlantic was milky green, thick as soup. At this time of year it swarmed with plankton, and in certain lights you seemed to see the sea wriggle with life. It was easy to imagine the first things crawling out of it and starting in on their colonial adventure. This northern sea was different, more coldly sophisticated. If you thought about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Channels Foreign Land | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...

Author: By T. M. Doyle, | Title: Too Much Sauce | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Surprisingly, this movie has a thick plot for films of its caliber. On one level, the movie depicts the creation of Remo Williams, defender of the American way. On another, Remo wins his first battle with...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Good Guys, Bad Guys | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

...hurtling mass of earth and debris came to rest in a ravine at the bottom of the hill, entombing its victims in a mound of muck 40 ft. to 60 ft. thick. It is still unclear how many residents of Mameyes caught in the slide's path survived the fall, but those who did escaped soon after the disaster struck. Unlike the havoc wrought by last month's earthquake in Mexico, the mud slide left no lifesaving pockets of air to sustain the trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Rites for a Barrio | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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