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Word: thinly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parody is, at best, a parasitic form, no stronger than the host body it is fastened to, and in this case the host is junky novels, flea-brained Hollywood scenarios, self-help journals, and ad jingles. Pop culture is turned into pop parody, and the fun runs thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pop Parody | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially beef, scarce in East Germany. Across the street from the carnival, a lone, scraggly Christmas tree shared its place with the huge model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Wall of Trees | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

Shock Effects. Last week Moscow heard what Shostakovich had composed instead, and the thin jokes vanished in a wave of applause. A masterful 13th Symphony rang through the Moscow Conservatory with a power and daring that proved that 20 years of apologizing for the art-for-art beauty of his early work had not, after all, sapped Shostakovich's strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Welcome Back | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...Thin Red Line, Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 21, 1962 | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...packed, featureless mass of glowing stars. But the 21-cm. waves reach deep into this stellar fog. They report that vast streams of hydrogen are flowing out of the nucleus, and none are streaming back. Where does the hydrogen come from? One theory holds that it collects from the thin halo that surrounds the galaxy. Another suggests that it is transformed out of some unobserved and heretofore unimagined state of matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: View from the Second Window | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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