Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to several current theories, the death of King was plotted about three months ago in Memphis. At least one witness reported seeing a man roughly matching Ray's description in Memphis last fall. He was thin, neatly dressed, with short, dark hair; his face and neck were marred by the scars of acne or smallpox...
...that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...
Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the cities have almost nothing to go on in their fight against urban poverty and racial discrimination. Anti-poverty funds have been cut, summer work programs are looking very thin, the whole employment picture for Negroes is as bleak as ever and the same is true of new and rehabilitated housing. Ghetto schools are the same old schools...
Aspic was almost as cursed as Eberlin. Director Anthony Mann died before it was finished and Laurence Harvey took over, maintaining the film's tense, glossy style. But the Mann-Harvey combination could not quite cope with Aspic's thin and often incoherent content. No one in the film is properly motivated; nearly everyone is unremittingly evil. For the viewer, as for Eberlin, there is no one to trust...
...initial act of progress is evolutionary. A series of brief scenes establishes the life cycle of the australopithicine before its division into what became both ape and man--they eat grass, are victimized by carnivores, huddle together defensively. One morning they awake to find in their midst a tall, thin, black rectangular monolith, its base embedded in the ground, towering monumentally above them, plainly not a natural formation. They touch it and we note at that moment that the moon and sun are in orbital conjunction...