Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thick-aired Thursday morning in Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc nails with which to seal the top. The cheap wooden boxes were placed in the back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles...
...Middle East is thick with U.S. forces just now. Beginning this month the area is the stage for Bright Star 83, maneuvers of an unprecedented breadth that will involve some 5,500 U.S. troops repelling imaginary invaders descending on Egypt, and for maneuvers in the Sudan, Somalia and Oman as well. Of the 14 U.S. AWACS planes now flying military reconnaissance missions abroad, eight are in the Middle East...
...crew members ran for the lifeboats, the flames ignited the cargo, which had begun to spill into the sea. For most of the day, the tanker burned, sending thick coils of black smoke rolling hundreds of feet into the air and bathing the area in an eerie orangish glow. Strong westerly winds blew a 75-mile-long cloud of choking smog toward shore, depositing thick black goo on houses and cars and coating newly shorn sheep with an oily film. Up to 25 miles inland, farmers reported an "oily rain" falling on their crops...
...high-tech outlets owned by the San Francisco-based Gelato Classico chain, cannot meet the demand. Some, like A1 Gelato in Elmwood Park outside Chicago and the art deco Gelati per Tutti on Hollywood's trendy Melrose Avenue, have become landmarks, packing in the pilgrims as thick as the product. In hundreds of supermarkets, brightly colored gelato containers nestle next to such top-of-the-line American brands as Breyers and their pseudo-Scandinavian cousins, Häagen-Dazs and Frusen...
Baselitz's art is the least "real" of the five: thick, ropy painting that takes a stand among images of the physical world but ends up looking quite unconcerned with them. He paints bathers, bottles or trees upside down, without offering a moment's access of feeling to this body, this vessel, this plant. His art is all generalization. Baselitz, 45, calls his subjects motifs, and that is what a motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif...