Word: thinning
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...first time in a long while, the team is healthy. Since returning two forwards and two blueliners who had been sidelined with lingering injuries, the Crimson is no longer pulling a forward back to strengthen a defensive corps stretched dangerously thin...
...feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists...
This makes for one of the most realistic dreams to hit screens since—well, since the respective last projects of Kaufman and Gondry, neither of whom has shied in the past from experimental ways to represent the subconscious. It also puts the two thin men with tousled hair in the unenviable position of having to lead a group of eager college journalists through their dense, dark cinematic fantasy in the early afternoon...
...brains behind the glory of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Where his previous solo outings have been difficult, lo-fi affairs greeted with lukewarm receptions, Shadows is a glorious, epic album by an artist at the peak of his powers. Frusciante’s voice, distinctively thin and with a soulful, lustrous falsetto, is finally strong enough to carry the weight of his songwriting talent, which has never been greater...
...undercurrent of self-parody that gives these fights their hipster gravitas against the Rock et al. When Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a giant chicken noodle can with arms, legs and a steak knife, goes up against Los Plantanos, the heroic Spanish banana twins, the pretense of seriousness is thin...