Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach a gruesome black-humor conclusion. Stylized drawings of upper crust twerps develop into tiny portraitures of weirdly haunted people. But this time the script does not fit the Gorey formula. Although everyone looks straight out of a Gorey story, you cannot sink your teeth into the paper-thin characters. And unlike his books, you cannot flip through this play. You just have to sit there, watching boring characters witlessly enacting a plot whose ending you already know...
...lack of enthusiasm for White House work occasionally expressed by some of the staff may be more playacting than real. And yet there has always been around the Carter camp the thin feeling that they are doing the country a great favor to come to work at the White House. That is a state of mind that tends to dull the nerve ends...
...brutality of Hitler's Third Reich.* As the shocked, uprooted prisoners arrived by rail at Auschwitz, Mengele, always impeccably turned out in a dress SS uniform, was the first person they saw. Placing himself between the rows of incoming prisoners, he decided their fate; a flick of a thin metal rod, held by a white-gloved hand, to the left meant immediate death in the gas ovens; to the right meant life-but what a life. Most of the prisoners would survive for only a few more weeks, doing hard labor on starvation rations or serving as guinea pigs...
...missed. Big on ever more ingenious gimmickry for Her Majesty's superspy. The Spy Who Loved Me will delight devoted 007 fans, but it remains a faint shadow of its earlier forerunners. The film never asks to be taken seriously, but Moore's amazing feats and affected bravado wear thin after awhile. Where we once gasped oohs and ahs we can now only giggle...
...overkill only if nothing comes of it," answers Robert Early, assistant managing editor of the Arizona Republic. Even in that increasingly unlikely event, Lance has small grounds for complaint. Most allegations against him still stand. Moreover, even in those periods when the daily Lance installments began to run thin, they served to keep the very important question of his competence before the public...