Word: thinly
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...from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least not in England -- would rival Van Dyck's poetic conception of kingship. From there it is downhill to Winterhalter, though Americans will be interested to see their very...
Constructed of epoxy and graphite-fiber composites and crammed with advanced electronics, the DC-X was designed to take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew...
...Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage to all Americans, including the 37 million ) currently uninsured, by generating savings within the country's unwieldy health system rather than by imposing new taxes...
Though this is the least ambitious movie Allen has made in decades -- for better or worse the return to "pure" comedy his critics have urged on him -- he seems to have a little more on his mind than updating The Thin Man. For one thing, Double Indemnity, which he quotes directly and indirectly. For another, the classic New Yorker's ambivalence about neighbors; the Liptons lament not knowing the folks they see on the elevator, but they live in fear of being drawn into boring, alien lives...
...Britain, the gel can be squirted into the spaces between teeth and gums. In a U.S. study of 100 patients who had completed a round of oral antibiotics, Walter Loesche of the University of Michigan and James Giordano of the University of Detroit School of Dentistry administered metronidazole on thin patches of an organic material called ethyl cellulose. Preliminary results indicate that the combination treatment saved 94% of teeth scheduled for surgery, and the teeth remained disease-free throughout a three-year follow-up period...