Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
...genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...
...Oregon pioneer, trailed badly when the race began. Last week he nosed ahead of Morse in a state wide poll commissioned by Portland's Oregonian. Only four-tenths of a percentage point separated the contenders; the outcome now probably hangs on the verdict of a sliver-thin 4.8% of voters who were undecided prior to a televised debate last week, which many viewers conceded was won by Packwood despite Morse's acknowledged skills as a sharp-tongued debater...
...gold medal was riding on the last event, the 1,500 meter run. If he could beat Toomey by 10 sec. or so, Bendlin could still win. But he never came close. Gasping in the thin air, every muscle rubbery with fatigue, Toomey led all but a few strides of the way and drove to victory by 30 yds. Final score for the ten events: Toomey 8,193; Bendlin 8,064-a total that dropped the West German to third, behind his countryman Hans-Joachim Walde, who had also run a faster 1,500. "That was the worst competition...
...traditional 26-mile 385-yd. Greek marathon. Kansas' Jim Ryun, the 1,500-meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded for the metric mile. The thin air may have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury, whose unorthodox, over-the-bar-backwards, high-jumping style propelled him to an Olympic record height of 7 ft. 41 in. It certainly did nothing to slow down Bill Toomey, whose speed afoot was the major factor...