Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once they saw what Stockman was telling Greider, why didn't they assign some economics people to do that story?" Adds Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Greider was walking a pretty thin line. If he were working for me, I would want those quotes, those contexts and Stockman's identity in my newspaper...
...more than the land can handle. For that reason, the BLM stages periodic roundups and puts the trapped horses up for public adoption. Dale Crawford, 53, an Oregonian who runs down horses for a living, has outbid-at $58 a head-a passel of others for the right to thin the Piceance herd from 346 horses to 166. Along with his wife Shirley, 52, and brother Gil, Crawford has spent hours in the garage perfecting the labyrinthine steel pen. He has spent another two days airborne over Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location to erect it. Crawford chooses a gully...
They were all dancers. Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a dancer's equilibrium would have fallen on his face. Fonda was just the opposite: a triumph of convex geometry, his thin body a question mark that ambled at Stepin Fetchit pace toward a girl or a cause...
...investigation of who seeks style, and why, might have given the book a little more substance. It's likely that students already have too much substance in life to bother filling up their days with "style." On the other hand, students might be motivated to crack this thin volume to find out just what is responsible for that empty social calender on the wall. This, then, is the most obvious motive for reading Doing It With Style: making friends and getting dates...
...this exegesis, though fascinating and never pedantic, is subordinate to the central question of the book: what does the analyst do? What is the substance of this weird, almost inscrutable relationship with the patient? What goes on in those quiet rooms with thin venetian blinds, and potted plants for 50 minutes a day, four or five times a week, for five, six or seven years? It is easy to conjure the now hackneyed image of one person sitting in a chair with a pad and pencil while another lies on a couch. It is impossible to imagine what they could...