Word: thins
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...first glance seems as homely as a turtle without its shell yet eventually proves as beautiful as an enchanted frog, must find a rescuer. And the rescuer must be a child, whose Galahad strength only E.T. and the moviegoer can immediately discern. The child is Elliott (Henry Thomas), a thin, quiet, wise-faced lad of ten who makes initial contact in a time-honored American fashion: by playing catch with a softball. With the help of his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton) and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), Elliott must battle the elements and some prying adults in a children...
Nothing in Rocky III seems fresh. And Rocky Balboa's charm wears thin. His lines are no longer startlingly expressive--they just seem startlingly ungrammatical and forced. "Nobody owes nobody nothing"; "it seems like everybody want to beat me up"; "don't get mentally irregular. "Maybe in Rocky, perhaps in Rockey II, these lines would work. But in Rocky III they are heavy handed and unoriginal, as if Stallone were trying to steal from his own previous films...
Earlier in the battle, the British may also have used two air weapons for the first time. The 610-lb. BL 755 cluster bomb destroys armored and thin-skinned targets and mines the area with smaller bombs timed to go off at varying intervals. In addition, it is suspected, though not confirmed, that the Vulcan bombers that struck Port Stanley airfield may have used the new JP233 airfield attack bomb. The result of a collaboration between British and U.S. firms, the JP233 craters enemy runways by penetrating the concrete before exploding, causing the surface to lift and fracture over...
Although the foreign press corps in Argentina has swelled to 740, reports from there were distressingly thin. Foreign correspondents were ordered out of the areas closest to the Falklands, and three British journalists, arrested April 13 and charged with being spies, remained in jail in Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world. Reporting was not much easier in Buenos Aires. "The big thing is access," says David Miller, bureau manager of the 27-strong CBS team, "and we just don't have it. In most countries the military will set up show-and-tell sessions. Not here...
...critics contend that Dershowitz-advocate, teacher, author-has spread himself too thin. He strongly disagrees. Almost as if to prove his ability to budget time effectively, Dershowitz maintains a busy personal life that includes attending home games of his beloved Boston Celtics and making regular trips to the opera in Manhattan. In the 1970s, after being divorced and successfully fighting to gain custody of his two adolescent sons, Dershowitz would rush home every afternoon to cook the boys' supper. Rearing them, he says, was "the most gratifying" thing he has ever done. Now that both are away at college...