Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many of the great problems we face today have their origin in the fact that this global civilization is not more than a thin veneer over the sum total of human awareness," Havel said. "I do not believe in some universal key or panacea...
...about early Britain starring dirty men in kilts (See "Robin Hood," "Rob Roy," and "Highlander" 1 and 2) seem to be popular these days, so Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" comes as no surprise. Gibson tackles this feature as director, producer, and starring actor. He's evidently spreading himself too thin, because although the movie begins promisingly, it soon grows dull and repetitious, relying on old Hollywood tactics to reel in its audience...
...Indictment begins with an ominous message-"This story happened in America in our times''-and has the sanctimonious tone of people who think they are discovering a horrid injustice for the first time. Indeed, Indictment makes its point far less subtly and effectively than such nonfiction works as The Thin Blue Line or the Frontline documentaries, which examined court cases that had been less thoroughly hashed over than the McMartin case. Still, for all its journalistic pretensions, Indictment is powerful and affecting television...
...thin blue line got a little bit thinner last weekend when dozens of New York City police officers went on a drunken rampage while attending ceremonies in Washington, D.C., honoring officers killed in the line of duty. As many as 100 of New York's finest reportedly groped female hotel guests, stole license plates or fired their weapons in the air. (One hotel says some officers stripped nude, poured beer down a lobby escalator and took turns sliding down.) A mortified Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at an impromptu Manhattan press conference today: "To take an event that is designed...
...threat from the air was not new to us: during the December evacuation, when the refugee train had come under repeated air attack, Mother had covered the baby with her body and the rest of us had flattened out on the floor of the carriage, shielded only by its thin metal siding. At one point, an old man became so frightened that he jumped off the moving train. Our carriage was not hit, but the sense of helplessness had been overpowering-as it was now on the truck...