Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BURMA"--all he favorite hands. "She's the leader of the troops; I wouldn't know what to do without her," says bassist Clint Conley, tongue firmly embedded in cheek. Psycho smiles and slashes at the wall with her Permo-marker. Back out on the dance floor a thin-lipped woman is distributing pamphlets on a Dada-ist art exhibit...
...past year, the Soviets have singled him out for punishment by slow starvation. After a closely monitored two-hour meeting with Shcharansky in early January his mother, Ida Milgrom, reported: "He looked so pale and so thin. For one year he has been starving. If he remains in this present situation he won't survive...
...never considered high fashion-unless the fur was left on. Nowadays, however, leather and its nappy obverse, suede, have been transformed into glamorous materials that can be used for any garment, from bikinis to evening wear. Thanks to new techniques, stiff, bulky skins can be cut almost paper-thin and butter-soft. And they are dyed almost any color. As a result, leather will be ubiquitous this spring. Says Vogue Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella: "Suede is the fashion. It is the star of the season...
...involves an elegant denial of clay's earthen nature. His sharp-angled, cubistic "cup" sculptures look so machined and precise that they might have been conceived in metal; the brilliant visual punch of the industrial glazes in De Chirico's Bathhouse, 1980, accentuated by the thin white lines where the facets of clay meet, gives these tiny objects a mysterious, artificial density...
...THOUGH, his book isn't very good. The pieces are taken almost verbatim from his television scripts and they don't survive the translation from speech to print. Without Rooney himself delivering the lines, and without the clever visual displays he usually presents on the show, the essays seem thin, silly, and childish. A written essay inevitably comes under closer scrutiny than a spoken one, and thus must carry more substance. Where the spoken word is fleeting, the written word must bear the pressure of close reading. Rooney makes this very point in his preface to the book...