Word: thinning
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...feature computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly disgusting way of putting...
...sizing standards seem targeted towards allowing larger-sized women to feel better about their bodies. However, the continual addition of ever smaller sizes and the use of tiny models for advertising send the unintended message that it is perfectly acceptable, and perhaps desirable, for women to aspire to rail-thin figures. If the fashion industry really has any concern for its consumers, rather than simultaneously lying to us and advancing conformity to precarious celebrity trends, it should focus on encouraging American women to find a healthy, happy medium...
...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...first thing that hits you when you enter Little Sadr City is the smell. The odor of open gutters, animal pens and trash fires fill a thin haze that floats through the neighborhood, where posters of Sadr hang on many buildings. When U.S. patrols rumble into the area in armored vehicles, pigeons soar as lookouts signal their comrades as to the Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving...
...possible rebuke by voters. And if Bush were a different kind of politician--if he loved political jawboning like Lyndon Johnson or could show political elasticity like Bill Clinton--this moment might be less significant. But Bush has perfected the art of governing from inside his razor-thin majority, and is proud above all of his ideological toughness. That's why the midterms could do more than change the balance of power in Washington, if current polls are right and one or both houses shift to Democratic hands. The election might also produce a different kind of presidential style. Bush...