Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Grateful Dead tours being about as consistent as the seasons, it's easy to forget about the fact that they're getting old. One look at them, however, and it's easy to see-Garcia and Kreutzman are both silver on top, and Weir's hair is pretty thin for the "young guy" of the band...
...prefers sterile, controlled environments. On this bright September morning, the G.O.P. Senate candidate is visiting the neonatal unit of the Long Beach Community Hospital. He makes the smallest of small talk, marveling at how big the monitors are and how tiny the babies. Well over 6 ft. tall and thin as his pinstripes, with a smile that never seems to reach his eyes, Huffington manages to escape without having a real conversation with anyone. At his next and last stop, he thanks volunteers and ticks off his reasons for trying to wrest away the seat of California Senator Dianne Feinstein...
Gail teaches at a school for the deaf. She is a firm but good-humored mom. Her tolerance for the workaholic ways of her husband Tom (David Strathairn) is wearing thin, but she's laboring earnestly on the marriage. She is also an expert whitewater rafter, and has arranged a trip down a challenging, unnamed western river with Tom, their son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and the family dog (boy and dog are also estranged from Tom). The family that gets sprayed together stays together -- or so Gail hopes...
Though telegenic enough, Barrett's high, thin voice made his tough talk in television spots sound like so much unconvincing whining. Bachrach's portly figure, frizzy hair and moustache didn't help him with first impressions...
Researchers in France have developed an electronic transistor that contains no metallic parts. Instead they used paper-printing technology to assemble very thin layers of plastic that mimic the properties of silicon chips. Because plastic is so much more flexible than metal, the devices could theoretically be used to create such futuristic items as video screens that roll up like window shades or bendable computers the size of credit cards...