Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka is both physically and metaphysically in touch with death, as if some thin, tight wire were strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds. It is distressing to monitor his illness for so long. One knows not only that Kafka's death must arrive in 1924, but also what will come of his larger presentiments: Kafka's three sisters...
...THIN EDGE by Anne W. Simon
...dynasty he would one day describe as "permanent parasites, stealing and corrupting everything in sight." Chamorro became a student agitator at the University of Managua, followed that with a brief adventure as a guerrilla leader who tried to take on Luis Somoza's Guardia Nacional with a thin band of insurgents. He was sentenced to a nine-year prison term for his abortive rebellion. After serving 18 months, he was released in a general amnesty...
...quite horrible. This manifestly changes the meaning of Iphigenia's death: apart from showing her dissolve into a screaming little girl, when the play leaves her toweringly resolute, her death has become meaningless--she should never have climbed those stairs in the first place. If you thin about this entire movie; best to lop it off mentallyand forget it as quickly as possible. This leaves th performances. unvaryingly superb and thrillingly animated...
Still, there are losers even at orgies. An enormously fat woman has been sitting around in her underwear for hours, wanly looking for a man. "Swans fly with swans, ducks fly with ducks," a thin-faced young man says, glancing at her as we step around a writhing couple at the edge of the pool. Thin Face, who says he is a member of swing clubs in Chicago, San Francisco and Montreal, thinks Plato's should be more selective about people it lets in. "I mean head-wise, not body-wise," he says quickly. "Look at all those sightseers...