Word: thinning
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...victim reported that she observed the man masturbating as she entered the building at approximately 12:25 p.m. She described the suspect as a six-foot-tall, thin, black male with short hair in his early...
...decision to switch careers and write The Golden Gate (after reading Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin). He is no passive narrator. He reacts with horror to the fate of Henny's family and friends in wartime Germany, as told - sometimes at numbing length - through her letters. Two Lives is thin on Seth's current life, though in person he is as voluble as Shanti must have been. Unmarried at 53, the author has a house in north London and another in Delhi, three doors from his parents'. His father was a shoe company executive, his mother the first female High...
...characters too ready to renounce passion for the sake of propriety. Yet in her day she was a revolutionary. Born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family on Sept. 18, 1905, she was only 19 when she arrived at MGM (her only American movie home). Yet with her long, thin face and magnetic gravitas, she was already eerily mature. From the beginning in movies she was the older woman, setting the rules of romance. She would initiate a kiss. She would be on top, leaning down to clutch a man's head as if it were a child's, needing...
...When in Bangalore you have to try a dosa or an idli, the breakfast staples of southern Indians. Dosas are thin crepes made with a rice-and-lentil batter. The same batter is used to make steamed white dumplings called idlis. Both are served with coconut chutney and spicy sambhar (lentil gruel). Most of the restaurants specializing in these dishes are spartan but clean, and a really satisfying meal can be had for a song. The standouts include the Mavalli Tiffin Room, tel: (91 80) 2222 0022, a Bangalore institution, and Dosa Stop, tel: (91 80) 2526 6467. The latter...
...know about getting in shape garnered personal testimonials from active exercisers, compliments from fitness trainers and appreciation from those who are happily full-bodied and still in top form. And some readers pointed out the need for personal motivation Bravo for showing that fitness isn't only for the thin, the strong or even just for young people [Aug. 8]. As an exercise physiologist, I have spent my career trying to change how people look at exercise. We all need to get back to making fitness activities feel as they did when we were kids - full of fun, movement...