Word: thinly
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With its semisnazzy repartee and would-be ebullience, I Love Trouble strains for the style of the grand old movies (the Thin Man capers, the Tracy-Hepburn comedies Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, half a dozen Hitchcocks) from which it borrows plot, dialogue and ambiance. But style is a Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland...
...vacuum, so that air flows through the nose and mouth and into the lungs without the effort of inhalation. Over the next months, Angela's caretakers began the process of weaning her from the machine. But in the meantime she was fed her baby formula through a thin nasogastric tube so as not to interfere with her breathing...
There was a beautiful sadness about the moment. The serenity of the thin crescent of beach as it lies today was seen by those on excursion boats in the English Channel and by Clinton at dawn from the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington. More than one water-borne spectator sensed how fragile the whole D-day operation must have been, successful finally by its audacity and the spirits of young servicemen sustained by the singular strength that comes from freedom...
...impossible to meet: make a bigger theater that loses little of the old one's intimacy, and be sure that the acoustics are rich and reverberant, like a concert hall's, but dry enough to allow every word to be distinct. Opera houses tend to have a thin resonance, partly because of the heavy use of carpeting and fabric, which trap sound instead of distributing it, and partly because singers like things that way. Judging by the opening performance of The Marriage of Figaro, Christie got his wish. The theater is handsome without being ostentatious. The interior is stark...
...Allies would fight back hard. Their three long, thin lines of defense -- dubbed FEBA (Forward Edge of Battle Area) Alpha, Bravo and Charlie -- are a network of tank traps, fortifications and trenches that mark the front lines as they stood when the first Korean War ended in July 1953. Seoul, which is only 35 miles from the DMZ, has invested heavily in the lines, especially the Alpha line, which crosses the Munsan and Chorwan valleys -- where North Korea would probably push through. Since April, the U.S. has dispatched a battallion's worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced...