Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem to be great-for pressuring Cuba. As long as Castro's links with Moscow remain intact, diplomatic or economic sanctions against Havana would not be very effective. Domestic support of another showdown with the Russians over Cuba, such as occurred in the 1962 missile crisis, might be thin if Americans believed all that was at stake was the future of some white regimes in Africa...
...violence and inflation between 1966 and the return of the Peronists in 1973. Last week, however, General Videla and the air force and naval chiefs apparently decided that to leave the civilians in power any longer was pointless. An ardent nationalist, devout Roman Catholic and fervent antiCommunist, the rail-thin Videla (his barracks nickname is El Hueso, the bone) will probably appoint a civilian Economy Minister who favors business and a Foreign Minister who supports strong ties with the U.S. For the moment, his main concern seems to be to avoid the kind of Chilean-style repression that might anger...
...first side of "3/4 Time" starts with a better nostalgia song than "Crustacean"'s "I'm an old man, I'd probably get sore/Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more." The song begins, "I wish I had a pencil thin mustach," and goes on to seance up a bevy of 20th century culture ghosts, like Ricky Ricardo two-tone jackets, autographed pictures of Andy Levine Dick Clark's Bandstand, "Going off to college to get a little knowledge,/when all I really want is to learn how to score." It ends with "Brylcream, a little...
...Patti Smith is lounging in bed at Howard Johnson Motor Hotel in Kenmore Square. She's wearing a "Rastafarian" t-shirt. Her pencil thin arms fly out of the round stove holes of the too big t-shirt as she talks to some Mr. Jones journalists wearing bow ties...
PATTI COMES IN with long thin teardrop legs stuffed into jeans which are stuffed into boots. Wisecracking and cursing and strutting and smiling, she is not playing the sensitive artist. Davis had said he wouldn't give her the full promo treatment if she shrank from stuff like this. She is determined to have a good time. She says it's her birthday, and if true, she shares it with Richard Nixon...