Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple gazing begins to wear thin, home-theater converts can sample a more aggressive brand of entertainment. Set-top boxes like WebTV bring the Net's resources side by side with sitcoms and football, while video games from Nintendo and Sony move computer shoot-'em-ups to the big screen. Seasoned couch potatoes need not be worried about leaving their comfortable perches: new keyboards are now wireless...
...greatest threat to farmworkers, however, is the use of harmful pesticides on grapes. Table grapes use such cosmetic pesticides such as Captan, Methyl Bromide, and Parathion because of the grapes thin and fragile skin. According to a report by the U.S. General Accounting office, many of these pesticides cannot be washed off and one-third of them are considered carcinogenic. The EPA reports that 300,000 farmworkers every year receive pesticide poisoning...
...Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked out of thin air. Hersh goes on to argue that amid the "fanaticism" exhibited by both J.F.K. and Castro, only Khrushchev had the level-headedness to end this game of nuclear chicken by offering to pull the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade. In fact, as recently...
...have noticed fewer portraits of Saddam around town. In one area, Iraqis claimed that officials took down his pictures after citizens smeared them with excrement. Iraqis have clearly had enough of the hardships caused by economic sanctions, and Saddam's putting all the blame on the U.S. is wearing thin. Iraqis have seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere is the agony more visible than in the hospitals, where...
...fires a gun or slashes a victim to slivers in The Wings of the Dove, the sexy, spectral new film from Henry James' novel. But mortal predators are at work, and their weapons are smiles, thin and precise as stilettos. The smile of smarmy Lord Mark (Alex Jennings) says, "He's boring" or "Her money is too new" or, late at night when he's drunk too much, "You'll do." His friend Maude (Charlotte Rampling) has a practiced irony in her smile; life has taught her to walk gracefully among land mines and, en route, to plant...