Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PLEADS that it has to process 50,000 applications a year. So what? The Harvard College admissions office copes with nearly as many, and while you may get a thin letter from them explaining that you're not a steroid-addled jock or a ninth-generation legacy named Winthrop, they won't simply fail to process your application...
Stone, who has taken pictures in such war zones as Ethiopia and Panama, sensed that in some quarters, respect for Saddam may be wearing thin, not only because of losses in the gulf war but also because of the toll of the earlier eight-year conflict with Iran. A taxi driver whose two brothers died in that war told Stone that he hated Saddam, but quickly added, "This conversation did not take place...
Some things don't change. Any fresh-faced 16-year-old who hopes to blossom into a supermodel must meet certain minimum requirements. Elite's Pillard reels them off: she must be at least 5 ft. 9 in., bone thin, have full lips, high cheekbones, large eyes, long legs and a straight, not too prominent nose. Models today are taller and fitter than those of previous generations, with fuller lips and bigger breasts. "The models are still skinny," comments Susan Moncur, 41, a semiretired Paris model, "but with big tits -- real or false...
...roaring '80s, Carolyn Roehm became the archetype of what Tom Wolfe called the social X ray: a super-thin, high-profile fashion designer who consorted with the ultra-rich and married multimillionaire leveraged-buyout- king Henry Kravis. With Kravis' backing, she launched her own couture in 1985 and specialized in luxe items like ball gowns that cost as much as $6,000 each...
...rounds of American museums in the 1980s as examples of hammered gold. Then Heather Lechtman, an M.I.T. archaeologist interested in ancient technologies, examined the metal and discovered that it represented a far more sophisticated art. Lechtman's analysis revealed that the artifacts had been gilded with an incredibly thin layer of gold using a chemical technique that achieved the quality of modern electroplating. No one had previously suspected that these Indians had the know-how to create so subtle a technology...