Word: thinning
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Women don't mind if a model is thin and beautiful, but if she's dumb or characterless, they're turned off. Not surprising, says Quinlan, because what women really want is something quite basic: respect. --By Janice M. Horowitz
Yoko Ono once thought she had a hit. The song was called Walking on Thin Ice, and it was such an eerie and intense piece of avant-pop that her husband John Lennon was sure it would finally transform the public perception of Yoko from a shrieking fraud who broke up the Beatles to an important musician on the fringe of the mainstream. Ono and Lennon had just finished mixing Walking on Thin Ice and were entering their apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980, when Mark David Chapman pulled a .38 from his pocket...
...released Walking on Thin Ice in February 1981 with the dedication "For John," but it failed to crack the Top 40. "I was so in shock at John's passing," says Ono, "that I forgot about the song and pretty much everything else. I certainly wasn't going to any clubs." Thus she had no idea that influential Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan remixed Walking on Thin Ice into a dance-club anthem in the summer of '81. Levan died in 1992, and since then his many disciples in the DJ world have occasionally paid dual tribute to Levan...
...Percentage of cookies sold that are Thin Mints, the most popular of eight varieties...
...restaurants between Greenway Plaza and Harwin's wholesale district. At Udupi, the mushroom curry is a standout. At Madras Pavilion, rice takes center stage: lemon rice, coconut rice, tamarind rice--each one laced with a different blend of spices, nuts and vegetables. Both make fine masala dosa, those paper-thin stuffed crepes, but Suprabhath, a casual takeout place in Hillcroft's Little India neighborhood, is even better...