Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Howard Hughes has been many things to many men-and women. But TIME's cover portrait of the dying junkie billionaire seems to be stretching artistic license rather thin by giving us not reality, the wreck, but an almost mirror image of Leonardo da Vinci's last self-portrait...
...first popular test of Fukuda's policies and of whether he has revived the L.D.P. will come in July, when the Japanese elect a new upper house. The L.D.P. majority there is now a razor-thin one seat, and the party may lose control-unless Fukuda by his actions regains some of that faded popularity...
...That thin margin in the lower house will not allow Fukuda a luxury enjoyed by his predecessors: governing while ignoring the opposition. At a press conference last week, Fukuda stated: "I intend to work up a full dialogue with the opposition parties." University of Tokyo Political Scientist Shinkichi Eto only half jokingly muses that if "I were Fukuda, I'd be taking the opposition leaders to some nice quiet geisha house in Akasaka...
With just 249 of 511 seats, Miki's Liberal Democrats could patch together a wafer-thin majority of three only after gaining the support of nine independents. Though the L.D.P. will still be able to form a government, its era of uncontested dominance is over. For the first time, it will be forced to woo opposition groups and indulge in parliamentary trade-offs and maneuvers...
...Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin, which when melted in hot water becomes Flex Flesh and can be shaped in a variety of plastic molds. The skin-thin horror mug is kept in place with spirit gum and can take makeup. New York's Pressman Corp., which makes the sets, has sold some...