Word: thins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning of "common man." To applaud the sadists, voyeurs and media manipulators masquerading as directors, actors and writers is as misguided as were the lives of that flagitious couple. Bonnie and Clyde is a victory if the battle was to rape senses, offend dignity, and threaten the thin threads of humanity some of vis are still tenaciously holding on to in spite of the Mr. Beattys of this...
...device--a so-called "fiber optics instrument"--consists of a long thin tube that is inserted into the heart. The tube is made of a bundle of 70,000 glass fibers which transmit an image from the inserted end to the viewer...
...Forest scenes are a good deal more effective than their contrast in the court. The images of corruption are a little thin in content, and a bit arty in directional approach, depending on tricks of slow motion and frozer action. Occasionally in the first act, I wished that Mr. Michaels did not know quite so many modern and effective comic tricks: the wrestling match, for example, loses a good deal of force from being treated as a parody of the old TV "groaners," and the faithful servant Adam (Craig Newenhuyse) is sadly reduced by being directed and played a ridiculous...
...most significant aspect of his seven years in the Vatican was his friendship with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. No two men could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius...
...remains McNamara's tragedy, perhaps, despite the power of his arguments that he has frequently failed to appreciate the political consequences of his decisions. For his deployment of a thin ABM system may in time generate pressure to build a far more costly, unnecessary "thick" system to defend against the Russians...