Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson and, in the early '70s, specialized in budget watching at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. Says Rivlin, who is a divorced mother of three: "Things are better now for women economists, but history is difficult to break. The ranks are very thin in my age group...
...playlets are quite dreary. In the weakest, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby appear as vacationing Chicago doctors whose Los Angeles visit is ruined by slapstick mishaps involving torn clothing and wayward automobiles. It is a thin recap of an old Simon screenplay, The Out-of-Towners. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda fare only slightly better in their sketch. She plays a tart-tongued Newsweek editor who has flown West to fight with her ex-husband over the custody of their daughter...
...almost immediately won national acclaim. In his Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook (Harmony Books; 145 pages; $10), Chung relates charming anecdotes from his native Li-ling county and introduces many worthy dishes, notably hot and sour chicken, fried asparagus in hot black bean sauce and, for breakfast, steamed thin-sliced pork with fermented black beans. Ni hao, Mr. Chung...
...placing our bet on her to rise above the mistakes and difficulties of her first eight years in Washington and to establish herself on Capitol Hill as a major voice for enlightened social policy and vibrant internationalism") is forced to skate across a thousand yards of very thin logical and civic...
...Times passes over all that thin ice by an act of rhetorical levitation, as if there were no such thing as gravity. Its central conceit is that "Mrs. Clinton is capable of growing beyond the ethical legacies of her Arkansas and White House years." We must all applaud this generous endorsement of the doctrine of redemption - no sinner but can be saved. Forget the carpetbagging, forget the years of lying, forget the ruthless opportunism. The Times editorial page, which has been fiercely critical for years about Whitewater and other Clinton scandals, forgives all of that now. Edifyingly, the capacity...