Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero (Hugh Franklin) is a playwright. The playwright's young composer godson (David Dukes) is engaged to a tempestuous prima donna (Elizabeth Owens). Late one night godfather and godson overhear the lady, through paper-thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous session of lovemaking with an actor (Neil Flanagan). While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on a ruse. The guilty lovers, he will pre tend, had actually been rehearsing a play - which has still to be written...
SENATOR LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., 42, another member of the select committee, was the first Republican to demand-on what seemed like thin evidence-that H.R. Haldeman resign as chief of the White House staff. As a result, he was instantly in trouble with G.O.P. regulars in Connecticut. Now that he has been vindicated, his home-state stance has improved, and he might emerge as a candidate for Vice President...
Wilson amassed 143 points en route to his razor-thin victory in an election open to Radcliffe pinball addicts. Rick Climan, also of Currier House, copped second with 133 points, while North House's Frank Mears finished third with 127 points...
...place like the Starr Book Shop with its crazy castle exterior and its piles and shelves of musty, dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through their minds. No doubt they imagine the booksellers themselves -- the tall, thin man with the distinguished-looking, white goatee, and the heavier-set, clean-shaven man with the ever-present pipe--as the central figures in a coterie of important literary Bostonians...
Those last years are also represented by a series of casual self-portraits with loose, brushy paint-handling and increasingly harsh introspection in the features. In the very last of these, the paint has grown thin and pale; the face is resigned and tilted slightly to the side. The artist's image appears to be weakening, fading perhaps into the obscure position of one torn between styles and times, and caught, for all his talent, at a rank just below the greatest...