Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need only look at the final painting in the show, finished just last month (too late for the catalog): Evening in the Studio. It shows the inside of the artist's London workplace, a medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant, out of place in the drab surroundings...
...diet doctor insists you can eat, drink and be thin...
Brown, as the murdress Charlotte Corday, sings in a well-characterized, luxuriously deep voice that is coated in a thin, hard shell of insanity. It is through her masterfully tortured expression that we see the horror of the Revolution in all of its slaughter and inhumanity She asks, "Who is judging?" and at once we see that she has removed herself from the scene, and sees beyond the confines of Charenton...
...struggle for a tolerant society -- not only one in which the big racial injustices are cured but one in which the strong do not prey on the weak, the beautiful do not insult the ugly and the thin do not prevail over the fat -- is a worthy goal. But neither resources nor public sympathy is limitless. Treating the discrimination against someone who is fat alongside that of someone who is a paraplegic is part of an effort by special-interest groups to make all suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make...
...Bone-thin after four years of declining rations, Mario Caballero, a 52-year- old school administrator in Santiago de Cuba, is one of the older generation whose faith in Fidel is well-nigh religious. If his rhetoric recalls communist dogma of the '50s, it still reflects sentiments deeply etched in the Cuban soul. "Before, our best land was Yankee. The sugar was Yankee. The electric system was Yankee. The phones were Yankee." Never mind that the sugar crop is failing for the second year, that electricity and phones rarely work. "We may be living through a special period," he says...