Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free show featured the improvisational comedy group "On Thin Ice," as well as professional comedians Steve Hurley, Janine Detoulio and Paul...
...Thin Ice" began the show by performing a series of interactive games in which audience members shouted out ideas that were incorporated into the skits...
...hyphen away from one's roots, and still a thousand miles away. But it is often that link to a foreign land -- another way of seeing things -- that allows such artists to contribute ideas to American culture that are fresh and new. That slim hyphen, that thin line that joins individual Americans to their past, is also what connects all America to its future...
What neither plan explicitly addresses is a way to deal with the inevitable progress of technology. Because the real crisis in health care isn't inefficiency--it's these constantly rising costs, which threaten to stretch already thin resources. Any reasonable plan to manage health care insurance must explicitly address this quandary. Clinton's advisors, the framers of national health care policy, ought to know this...
...gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional...