Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presided over the loss of 130,000 jobs since January 1991, yet he proposes to manufacture 50,000 jobs out of thin air," Barrett says. "That's Reaganomics all over again...
Great literature often concerns self-discovery through encounter with the Other. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow meets Colonel Kurtz and realizes that a thin line separates the values of civilization and insanity. In Moby-Dick,this guy's chasing around a big whale, but the whale is really a part of him, or at least that's what my Cliffs Notes say. In the Famed "street person episode" of "Diff'rent Strokes," Arnold encounters an epileptic homeless mime, and learns that deep inside, we all have motor co-ordination problems. All of these characters learn and grow through their brush...
...reason is obvious: there is much more pressure on women in western society to be thin, while underweight men are regarded as effeminate. Women's health and beauty magazines consist chiefly of articles aimed at weight reduction, but magazines geared to men focus on physical fitness rather than slenderness. Indeed, this produces its own complications: studies have shown that one to three percent of all college seniors and approximately 85 percent of all football players have taken anabolic steroids to build muscle mass at one time or another...
Ironically, today, may physicians, when face with a painfully thin male, would be at a loss. "I don't' want to say that there's a bias against spotting eating disorders in men, but it's certainly much less likely to be diagnosed as quickly as in a women," says Heatherton...
...Swann wrote the eclectic music for Michael Flanders' gently satirical lyrics in a pair of revues, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat. They toured throughout the '60s, with Flanders providing dry commentary and lead vocals and Swann at the keyboard, adding his thin but enthusiastic tenor to such whimsy as The Gasman Cometh, Song of Reproduction (a jab at stereo enthusiasts) and The Hippopotamus Song, an ode to "mud, mud, glorious mud" that somehow became a plea for international peace, complete with a verse in Russian delivered by Swann...