Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot is complicated and overgrown, including both sighing lovers and slapstick comedy, the latter provided by rustic laborers rehearsing an opera within this opera. The main weak point is the tendency for overlong recitative passages that stretch audience interest thin at times. The singing dialogues, however, especially the rustics', are splendid. In the end, after all the trials and tribulations of True Romance, there is a grand reconciliation when the status quo is restored. Good-humor and realism prevail over magic. At this point, the rustic laborers' comic rendition of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is not only...
...rail-thin Videla, known as el Hueso (the Bone), is regarded as a moderate within the junta. Videla, who has resisted demands from hard-liners like Navy Admiral Emilio Massera for sterner repression of intellectuals and students, is committed to restoring civilian rule "once the situation permits." The military, he says, "does not have a totalitarian calling." Nonetheless, some Argentines fear there are high-ranking officers who would like to establish a neofascist regime...
...major target for saving natural gas and oil will be home insulation. "Your home is your castle," runs one current Washington quip, "but your attic belongs to the Government." At present, as much as 40% of house heat escapes through poorly fitting windows, too thin walls and faulty flues. Schlesinger plans a mandatory program that will force homeowners to insulate whether they want to or not. Enforcement will be through state commissions and local utilities. One proposal: order public utilities to insulate homes and spread out the cost through higher billing to all customers. For added energy saving in homes...
Typically, the physician pushes several hollow steel needles horizontally into the breast through the tumorous area and out the other side (see diagram). Thin plastic tubes are then threaded through the needles (which are subsequently removed) and anchored in place by small plastic buttons at either end. The iridium-in the form of tiny "seeds" embedded in a thin, stiff nylon ribbon -is inserted into the tubes. The outer layer of the seed is a steel sheathing; it blocks dangerous ionizing beta rays (electrons), but allows the escape of the high-energy gamma rays that destroy the tumor...
jealous, too thin...