Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool. Old lecture hall seats, minus the fold-up desks, are placed neatly down a slope to the deep end. The entire theatre, including the stage, is elevated about four feet above the pool floor by a system of wooden beams (I peeked under a trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling of a small playhouse, while brass guard-rails, a grey marble deck, ornate stone ledges...
...University's explanations for considering disbanding Linguistics have been thin at best. The administration points ambiguously to "problems" in the department. Knowles said cryptically that "the department is not serving the students' best interests...
...political risks of cutting loose a province that has shown consistent majorities in favor of union with Britain remain too high, especially for Prime Minister John Major, who now needs the votes of the nine Protestant Unionists in the House of Commons as a cushion to defend his thin majority. And if London cannot afford to lose Ulster, Dublin cannot afford, for economic reasons, to welcome it back into a united Ireland...
...promoted by the rhetoric of late Abstract Expressionism -- was exactly what he reacted against when he started out during the early '60s. Was real American art loaded with signs of commitment and authenticity -- Pollock drips, De Kooning stripes? Then Lichtenstein would go to the opposite extreme and paint thin copies of the least arty things within reach: romance and adventure comic strips...
...still around. He's hanging on. But the skin on his teeth is wearing thin...