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...little more reluctant to disclose the source of his "french envelopes." But upon being pressed, he revealed the root of his secrecy. His condoms are fashioned from "the appendix of a nearly extinct breed of sheep, now raised in only two remote villages in the Caucasus," which are gossamer-thin and known for their "great tensile strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOPPING IN CAMBRIDGE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...4.Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CENTS! | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...would a pencil-thin mustache affect Ken Starr's appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...else has a good pencil-thin mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Thin love ain't no love at all," says Sethe, the fiercely defiant runaway slave in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Oprah Winfrey's love for the book was thick, warm, abiding. With eyewitness immediacy and the God's-eye view of fictive art, Morrison brought the intimate evil of slavery to life in the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice. When Winfrey discovered the novel upon its publication in 1987, she was moved as a reader, as an African American, as a woman who suffered the death of the child she gave birth to when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching Beloved | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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