Word: thinning
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...getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along with each other: Rollins met Perot only last weekend, and Jordan's relationship with the populist plutocrat predates Rollins' by only a few months. Rollins' penchant for candidly criticizing his own clients will eventually put Perot's legendary thin skin to the test...
...over his head. Of the two numbers he played, Clinton seemed more at home on Heartbreak Hotel; his growly sound suited the rhythm-and-blues genre, though his attacks were sloppy. Billie Holiday's ballad God Bless the Child was a mess. Clinton's phrasing was unsure, his tone thin, his melodic lines disintegrated into meaningless trills. But the audience loved it -- and maybe they were right. In a campaign dominated by sound bites, it is refreshing to hear a candidate come out with something really important like jazz. Just don't buy the album...
Asked about bureaucratic bloat, outgoing Vice President General Counsel Daniel Steiner jokes, "Really. "I'm quite thin, I think...
Gazing out on soon-to-be renovated Weld Hall, the thin, wiry Briton who sported shades at President Neil L. Rudenstine's inauguration and who prefaced a budget discussion with a story about a snowdrop, laments his lack of rest...
COPS SHOULD HAVE SKINS THICKER THAN AN ELEphant's hide. After all, each day they confront life's most horrible scenery, from murder to mayhem. But San Francisco police chief Richard Hongisto's thin skin got him canned last week because he allegedly couldn't stand the sight of a gay newspaper that blasted | his handling of the protests that erupted in San Francisco following the Rodney King verdict in the suburbs of Los Angeles. So he reportedly ordered some officers to strip them off the racks...