Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the pains my older sister used to get before they operated on her varicose veins-anyway, this guy comes on during the Late Show and he's demonstrating the Miracle Vegetronic. You know, the one that slices, dices, cubes, chops, grates, shoestrings and shaves a tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent in my $10.27 plus postage and handling to Fly-by-Day Enterprises, P.O. Box 18,274, Ocean View, Kans., and it's been seven years now and I haven't heard. Can you help...
...device made of plastic that would allow someone to eat a piece of hot pizza without burning his fingers. Best whacky idea of all, perhaps, was for Fats (who used to weigh about 400 pounds, hence the nickname) to go on a lecture tour, under the billing of "The Thin Evangelist...
...Waddy Wachtel supplying the characteristic riffs that made Berry's mid-fifties music so popular, the track has become an AM/FM hit single, a sure-fire get-up-and-boogie rocker. But it lacks the power of "Tumbling Dice" or the throaty intensity of "Heat Wave." The song is thin throughout and doesn't hold its own among the other works on this album...
...Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks. Julia weds Moon in a marriage of convenience: she needs someone to work her unsuccessful gold mine, while he needs a respectable wife to shield him from the law. The thin story traces the predictable warming up of their relationship. Pretty soon the film becomes a string of uneven set pieces, the best of which suggest Nichols and May as rewritten by Mark Twain...
Fortunately she was pacified by the time our waitress returned with the order. Thirty-eight going on 53, our waitress was anorexic and her green eyeshadow drew attention to the hollows that sunk deeper in her gaunt face as the night wore on. Her short thin hair clung to her temples, never ruffling as she shuffled between our table and the gaggle of gossiping waitresses in the corner. Over the noise of the restaurant we heard them say things like, "Frank is still going out with Jill, and Beverly just won't see either of them" as they leisurely took...