Word: thins
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...last week a Texas parole board decided that happy endings are only for movies. By a 2-to-1 vote, the board refused to release Randall Adams, whose plight director Errol Morris publicized in his documentary The Thin Blue Line, which has enjoyed a cultlike popularity since its release last summer. Despite a lower-court recommendation at a hearing last December that Adams be retried, and even though the companion who accused him has all but confessed to the murder, the board concluded that the heinous nature of the crime dictated that Adams should remain in prison...
...that Christians, particularly those who believe in the literal interpretation of Scripture, are similarly sensitive about fictional portrayal of the sacred, though their protest generally takes less violent forms. Even secular gods are sometimes held by their followers to be above scrutiny; in earlier times the Kremlin was notoriously thin-skinned about revelations concerning the private lives of Lenin and other members of the Communist pantheon...
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This weekend Harvard's oldest comedy troupe. On Thin Ice, presents an improv show in the Loeb Experimental theater tonight and tomorrow night. On Thin Ice has been at Harvard for six years, and models its performances after those of Chicago's Second City, where John Belushi got his start...
Tonight's show will include skits based on ideas suggested by the audience and enacted on the spot by On Thin Ice members. In the past, those in the audience have suggested topics from occupations and activities to emotions and genres that are then presented by the actors. This weekend's performances should prove no different...