Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is the heat, which gets trapped in thick walled Harvard dorms with small windows; and then there is the realization that everyone else you know is going to the beach, earning money, and having a good time...
...pizza was two inches thick and weighed about five pounds. I breezed through the first three pieces in 15 minutes. No problem; but I was full and only half done. I got up, walked around and came back. For the next half hour I choked down pizza and just barely made it in under the deadline. I got the last piece in my mouth with 45 seconds to go and just managed to swallow before time ran out I couldn't sleep on my stomach that night...
...Denise Worrell has often contended with the problem of gaining access to press-shy stars. "The hardest thing about reporting in Hollywood," she says, "is penetrating the thicket of people surrounding celebrities. Stars get heat rash in the constant glare of public scrutiny. If they do not have a thick skin, they get a thick entourage." Despite the difficulties presented by this fortress mentality, there is a need for it. Says Worrell: "Celebrities build barriers to protect themselves from the overcurious public. Unfortunately, a barrier can turn into a prison, an enchanted prison but nonetheless a prison...
...could have modeled for Eliot's caricature. Currently a poet in residence at Harvard, Heaney is hardly noticed on campus or strolling the Boston waterfront. At 44, he checks in at 5 ft. 10 in. and 200 lbs.; with his shock of thinning gray hair and the thick-fingered hands of a farmer, like his father's and grandfather's before him, he might pass for an immigrant long shoreman or an off-duty officer. But the appearance is what he calls "the great fur coat of attitude." Beneath it is a wary, hypersensitive poet, alive...
...Citizens Band radio. On Feb. 16 the mountaineer was spotted by a glacier pilot near a snow-hole bivouac at 16,400 ft. Uemura waved, a prearranged signal that all was well. When he failed to reappear by Feb. 19, rescue efforts were begun, but they were frustrated by thick clouds, high winds and blinding snow. Two of Uemura's friends, Climbers Jim Wickwire and Eiho Otani, were dropped onto the mountain by helicopter at the 14,300-ft. level to continue the search. Their major concerns: Uemura carried no tent, and his supplies of raw caribou meat, seal...