Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walking the streets of Los Angeles again, but not without haunts. As he tells himself repeatedly in the new film, The Two Jakes, the past is something every person must confront at one time or another. It is a tortuous process, Gittes realizes, which requires treading a very thin line. "I don't want to live in the past," he says, "I just don't want to lose...
...trouble is that although she wants to use language alone as the stuff of visual art -- a dubious enterprise anyway -- she has no language. She just rambles, and her linguistic poverty strikes people as "radical," as though it were the result of some exacting distillation. But it is thin and complacent, tarted up with costly materials for the audience of consumers whose pretensions it affects to despise. Its bathos (LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL) might have issued from the warm heart of some Midwestern creative- writing course. Her phrasing (IDEALS ARE REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS AT A CERTAIN...
...York Times Magazine once described U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills as a "persistent, fiercely competitive, sometimes thin-skinned workaholic." Tough words for a tough woman. Yet as a leading Japanese politician would have it, Hills is more cute than competitive. Koko Sato, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sat next to Hills for more than two hours during a dinner party at the recent Houston economic summit. Sato, 62, told friends he found Hills, 56, "easy to deal with if you lull her with the Oriental way of life and philosophy." He later described Hills to reporters...
...take over a struggling Florida S&L and in 1987 was named in a complaint filed by a rival group. The matter was settled out of court, with no hint of scandal. The Cuomo camp thinks the Republican attacks are in part an election-year attempt to goad the thin-skinned Governor into losing his temper. Says one of the Governor's advisers: "Who's Ed Rollins? Operatives are very good at slinging mud, and you can't win if you engage them...
...Each team had to devise its own solution to the basic technological problem of converting fickle sunlight into sufficient electrical power to drive a vehicle across the country. Many came up with bizarre gimmicks that surprised even veteran engineers. The Florida Institute of Technology's secret weapon was a thin surfboard of a car with solar panels not just on its top, but also on its underside, to gather light reflected off the asphalt. Western Washington University built a car with two drivers seated back to back and a solar panel tipped rakishly, and permanently, to one side...