Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole improbable enterprise was started in the depths of the Depression by a 28-year-old Nebraska pharmacist named Ted Hustead. He had a $3,000 stake, a wife, a child of four, and the brass of a born capitalist. Now 78, with wire-rimmed trifocals, thin white hair and a deeply lined face, Ted looks like a kindly drugstore man out of Norman Rockwell. In earlier pictures, he looked more serious and resolute. "We weren't trying to make it rich," he recalls. "We were trying to make a living...
...taking pictures every 3.2 min. The movie-like sequence should not only show the formation and disintegration of the spokes during each rotation but also help explain what forces are acting on them. One theory: the spokes are in fact composed of dustlike particles lifted out of the thin ring plane by electrostatic forces perhaps created by the faint light of the distant...
Their families are with them often now and together they flash back to early memories and images. Francis Hughes, a folk hero inside the Maze long before his death, retained his needling, cheery nature to the end, lying in bed and singing rebel songs in a thin hoarse voice, his sad relatives gathered around...
...stories, before The Maltese Falcon was made into three different movie versions and made him famous. After that, he went out to Hollywood and lived the big life for a while, went broke, ran off to New York, lived in a hotel managed by Nathanial West and wrote The Thin Man--the book that would make him his second fortune. Nick Charles is the hero of The Thin Man, and he and his wife, Nora, are witty, urbane detectives who showed how much the sensibilities of the country had grown since Hammett first started. Nick Charles would rather...
This production, under the direction of R. J. Cutler, respects those silences, and that's one of the major reasons it works so well. Cutler, too, has a balancing act to perform--that thin line between silence and stasis--and for the most part he pulls it off. In the tiny space of the Loeb Ex, with nothing but a white backdrop, an antique lamp, an overstuffed chair and elegant lighting by David Van Taylor, the action begins simply as the detectives confront the eerie outline of a body on the floor. This outline eventually becomes almost a character...