Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of us, Japan has come to mean crowded trains, high-tech gadgets, efficient systems, cool reserve--a neon blur, in the imagination, of pencil-thin high-rises in which traders in dark suits mutter into cell phones. Or, if not the hard realism of Tokyo's office blocks, then the gossamer romance of Kyoto's teahouses, all exquisite restraint and antique silence. Though both these sides are suddenly in evidence in Olympic Nagano, for most of its life the city and the village venues all around it have offered a down-home, uncrowded, friendly Japan where some...
While Kotlowitz reaches no conclusion about what caused McGinnis' death, his account is a saddened, sympathetic portrait of two Americas. At the same time, however, the book often seems curiously unmoving and thin, perhaps because it is ultimately inconclusive, perhaps because of a note of self-importance that sometimes falsifies the author's narrative voice...
...flawed "dream" plane, promoted by an arrogant Air Force general, Merrill McPeak. He expected inexperienced students to be able to do spins and rolls without parachutes. These young people were the victims of a program hurriedly begun before the T-3 was adequately adapted for the thin Colorado air, before instructors were sufficiently trained, before safety and mechanical problems were solved. Losing our son in such a senseless way has undermined our trust in this nation's military leaders. American taxpayers should question the use of their money for such dangerous planes. LINDA and EARL FISCHER Jupiter...
...collection begins with a fragment from 1923 that is among the earliest known surviving symphony-broadcast recordings. At first its sound seems irritatingly thin and scratchy, but as the listener's ears adapt, the focus turns to Willem van Hoogstraten's white-hot, meticulously sculpted rendering of most of Beethoven's Coriolanus overture; the level of orchestral precision is breathtaking. Even more remarkable is Willem Mengelberg's spellbinding presentation in 1924 of two fragments from Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration. Mengelberg achieves an almost spiritual intimacy in the work's tender, meditative broodings and a radiant beauty...
...friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns in her prickly impulses and serves up an ending that feels cathartic and true...