Word: thinning
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...Lakers, which ended with his leaping into the arms of his startled and famously reserved teammate, Abdul-Jabbar. In the final game of the championship series that year, with Abdul-Jabbar injured, Johnson played all five positions, and somehow in his rookie season conjured a victory out of thin air. But even when the Most Valuable Player awards and championships became commonplace, and the miraculous expected, Johnson worked overtime to transcend all expectation, developing a three-point shot that was lethal, practicing free throws till he became the best in the league. It was not simply his ability that made...
...what's wrong with democracy anyway? Isn't this what students are always asking for--a little debate? Of course, public discourse can only be beneficial for the community as a whole. But in this case, the call for discussion seems to be a thin veil--part of a larger unwillingness to follow through on an obligation that the Faculty Council has already stated: the obligation to cut all ties to ROTC unless the military ends its discriminatory practices...
...ghosts of one layer of paint behind the other; this subtlety (the equivalent of the nuances inside the coats of wax in his earlier work) plays off against the roughness of the lines. Sometimes a whole web of dark line gets canceled, whited out, but roughly -- on those thin grounds nothing can be concealed, anyway -- so that it forms a counterpart to the drawn structure, a sort of ghost image behind the interlacing...
...canvases is meant not so much to impress you in the familiar, take-it-or-leave-it American fashion as to draw you slowly into the web. This, too, is part of Pollock's often misunderstood legacy. Looking at the "Cold Mountain" paintings one inevitably thinks of nature: thin they are, and austere, but also full of light and space. They suggest mountain landscapes, rocks half-effaced by blowing mist, sharp things incompletely seen. They are materializations of the words of the Chinese philosopher...
...worrisome. As the % largest issuer of such cards, Citicorp relies on the profit from those operations (last year: $610 million) to offset disasters like the depression in commercial real estate. As Americans get serious about whittling down their debts, the profit cushion for many bankers is getting uncomfortably thin...