Word: thinly
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...Nick, with the gimlet stare and the thin taut lips, is at first flummoxed by this amiable alien element: where the police station has a "swear box" (saying "nob" gets you a 10p fine), where the pub owner vaguely enumerates the wine selections as "red and... white," and where a man who's had his head cut off is described as "decaffeinated." Sanford might be the Shire, and the residents human Hobbits, to an alpha-male Aragorn like Nick...
...singing at the top of your lungs to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” Make sure that your suite shares walls with students who share a similar lifestyle. People say that the walls of Harvard dorms are paper thin. I say that isn’t giving paper enough credit...
...walk home with a heaping box of donations. But people don’t remember to bring things to the dining hall.” Kmiecik speculated that the limited campus participation was due to the busy time of year, when “volunteer-wise everyone is stretched thin.” But he said the drive’s message has broad appeal. “You’ll find very few people that will say ‘I don’t support the troops,’” he said...
...Miss Witherspoon” is not one of Durang’s best plays. Its whisper-thin plot barely covers what is essentially an exposition of the playwright’s personal theology. Miss Witherspoon (Paula Plum) commits suicide, and on her way through the “bardo” (a holding room for unfulfilled spirits that contains a curious mix of Eastern, Christian, and New Age religious ideas), learns to appreciate life on earth, finally making peace with the universe...
Freeze Magazine, the steamy, self-purportedly escapist publication for Harvard’s modern woman, is currently on thin...