Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...value of two bushels of wheat." Under the impetus of his descendant, Harvard's new President A Lawrence Lowell, the Commission was formed, bringing together the rich institutional resources of Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Simmons, Tufts, Wellesley and others, including the Museum of Fine Arts, to provide to thin day the same high quality of advanced education envisioned so long ago, at a phenomenally low cost still underwritten by the Lowell funds...
Just about everybody has some extra cushions, though they are becoming thin and frayed. Most (but not all) jobless auto workers collect supplemental unemployment benefits of just under 95% of their basic pay. But Chrysler Corp.'s SUB funds are expected to run out by early April and General Motors' by mid-May. Other unemployed people are drawing down their bank savings and selling off stocks. In sum, few people are totally destitute yet, but there could be spreading poverty and grave social trouble if high unemployment persists...
...some more stretching to do before she and her show can reach its full potential. Her comic range is still nothing for Lily Tomlin to worry about. The monologues are often monosyllabic, the sketches as thin as her own profile. If there is exuberance in her singing-dancing numbers with such potent guest stars as Raquel Welch and Bette Midler, there is also a feeling that she will not entirely prove herself until she dares front a show that lacks such heavy supporting artillery. She also seems to need the security of incredibly lavish productions. Each program costs...
...flaws, Ullmann has a thin voice with a narrow, monotonous range. In a Bergman film, with its still, deep pauses, this is not immediately apparent, but onstage it becomes a cumulative irritant. Ullmann's English is good, but not quite good enough. Taking the skylark and "little squirrel" imagery of the play literally, she skitters about the stage like a sandpiper. This does not destroy Nora's coquettishness, but it certainly diminishes it. There seems to be an arbitrary rhetoric of motions with which Ullmann plays the role. When she fears that her husband Torvald (Sam Waterston) will...
Informed conversation is simply too hard to get those who can give it are spread too thin. This does not reflect a lack of intelligence in Texas: the deficiency is cultural and involves a deflection of interest from anything remotely suggestive of mind...