Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's performance, Moon proved to be a frolicsome work with a gaily rippling score, evocative of Haydn's more celebrated The Seasons. If it was sometimes as thin as the moon's atmosphere itself, it also offered several rollicking ensembles, a rousing love duet, and a bubbly beat, as if Papa Haydn had been determined to do a gavotte straight into the stratosphere...
Quick-witted and active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present-day Paris Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Sorceress with Snake becomes almost as thin as her emblem and as attenuated as a figure by El Greco...
Since some 70% of the country's 55,000 dry cleaners have switched to plastic bags, the industry is geared to turn out the thin, transparent film coverings, and does not want to switch back to paper. What worries many of the 35 producers of plastic bags is that laws will be passed banning the use of the bags. New York City now requires that warning labels be placed on plastic bags, and other restrictive legislation is pending in various states...
...return to in Othello and Cymbeline. But at this time, Shakespeare was just casting about for a convenient skeleton to flesh. The whole business of the tragic slandering and the ensuing deception he took from older sources, and clearly wasted little effort on; his treatment of them is decidedly thin. The greatness of the play lies in what Shakespeare himself invented: the dazzing comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, who "never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them"; and the inspired farce of Dogberry, Verges, and the night watch. (When he used Much Ado as the basis...
...Mercutio did Shakespeare give the celebrated Queen Mab speech, one of the great virtuoso arias in the language. Smithers delivers this faery monologue in a slow, sloppy, slovenly manner, with no heed to what he is saying, when the speech should be, in Mercutio's own words, "as thin of substance...