Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thin Ice--at the North House Dining Hall on Friday and Saturday...
...order to get working telephones in every bedroom, we had to run wires under all the doors. That sounds easy; we'd heard the phrase "spaghetti thin" and assumed that telephone wire was at least as thin as spaghetti...
...turns out, however, that the space between the bottom of our doors and the floor is as thin as linguine. Opening and closing our doors thus becomes a major ordeal, worse than maneuvering an overstuffed sock drawer at eight-thirty in the morning...
...media representatives. The Soviet President has held other such sessions, but this time he did all the talking. During a two-hour finger- wagging lecture, Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on liberal elements of the press, accusing them of undermining the influence of the Communist Party. He was particularly thin-skinned about press coverage of the so-called Interregional Group of Deputies, a liberal caucus in the Supreme Soviet, whose members voice harsh criticism of Gorbachev's leadership that makes its way into print. Said Gorbachev: "We are standing knee deep in an ocean of gasoline, and you throw...
...peoples, he thought the camera steals something of the soul -- that, as he told a friend "every body in its natural state is made up of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, wrapped in infinitesimal films." Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld...