Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dilemma is that it lacks the troops to defend Phnom-Penh and at the same time reopen the Mekong, a critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys, or the capital will eventually be lost anyway...
...Wicker watches political power dissipate through the state's bureaucracy and firepower build on the walls surrounding D-yard, the outcome-even in hindsight-looms with the inevitability of Greek tragedy. The impact of Wicker's book shatters the convenient forgetfulness that cocoons disturbing memories. Even his thin, novelizing technique, which includes writing about himself in the third person singular and larding the narrative with bits of autobiography, does not lessen the book's overall effect. Whether Wicker was being a participatory journalist or a journalist participant matters little in the face of the events and issues...
...always less notable for their deeds than for their dinners. "Byron," observes Barkas, "noted poet and lover, practiced a meatless diet sporadically throughout his life, not because of deep ethical or political ideas, but out of vanity-to enable him to keep his weight down and preserve his thin, appealing figure, which was almost as memorable as his strikingly handsome features...
Instant Growth. In more advanced cases, surgery is necessary. The most common operation for scoliosis was developed about ten years ago by Houston's Dr. Paul Harrington, and is now performed on about 80% of all patients requiring surgery. Doctors implant thin steel rods next to the spine, placing them over the bone and under the back muscles. The rods, which are attached to the vertebrae with metal hooks, are then tightened-much like a set of orthodontic braces-to force the spine to straighten. At the same time, the spine is fused to give it additional strength. Patients...
Sylvan Scene. The plot is wafer-thin. It centers on the idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...