Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that year -- were severely restricted, moreover, by Hollywood's rigid code of self-censorship. Long kisses were forbidden, adultery always had to be severely punished, and double beds were for sinners in New York City. In Hollywood movies, even happily married couples, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series, slept in widely separated twin beds, clad top to bottom in pajamas or nightgown. Such now innocuous four-letter words as hell and damn were proscribed, and Gone With the Wind titillated and sometimes shocked audiences with Clark Gable's final words to Leigh: "Frankly, my dear...
...annual subscriptions are cheap: free to residents, $10 outside the walls. The state pays for it, and the warden is publisher. But Taliaferro's best readers are the men inside, the line officers and inmates. "You've got to walk the line; you'd not believe how thin it is," Taliaferro says...
...sometimes patience wears thin. If faced with a white employee who could not accept working under a black superior, says Rockwell International's Washington, he would help the recalcitrant employee find new work -- at another company. "I'm not going to tolerate it," he says, "because I'm the boss...
...Poll, sandwich purveyor to the Upper East Side top crust, prepares at least 50 boxes a week for his customers. On any given Monday morning, an arbitrager on his way to the coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small price to pay for being spared an airline lunch...
...parole board is not scheduled to reconsider Adams' case until December 1990. While he awaits final word on a new trial, Adams remains hopeful. "Eventually, I will win," he says. Meanwhile, Morris' documentary continues to gain attention and praise. The Thin Blue Line has won awards from the New York Film Critics' Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. What it has yet to win is Randall Adams' release...